Hi, On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, John Karns wrote:

I just read through Eric Raymond's XFree86-HowTo as installed with SuSE 6.2. There's a paragraph that says:

"On older versions of XFree86, XF86Setup links the `X' command directly to the chosen server. In recent versions, `X' is instead linked to a set-user-id wrapper program called Xwrapper. The idea is that all the setuid root stuff gets localized in Xwrapper so the server doesn't have to run setuid root."

However in my installation X is linked directly to the X-server (XF86_Mach64), not Xwrapper. Xwrapper is present, but when I change the symbolic link to reference it, the server doesn't come up.

Although the security issue isn't a big concern with the laptop where I tried this, I am also running SuSE installations on networked servers where this would be more of a concern.

Comments anyone?

Xwrapper will be started by the "startx" shell script, which in turn starts the actual X server (linked in /usr/X11R6/bin/X). So you should be on the safe side here. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/