http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586096 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586096#c0 Summary: Some games require root priviledges to run Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Security AssignedTo: security-team@suse.de ReportedBy: neptunia@mail.ru QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100204 SUSE/3.5.8-0.1.1 Firefox/3.5.8 Some games such as Plane Shift, Quake III and Alpha Centauri for Linux (demo) require root priviledges to run while under other distributions (Ubuntu) they can be run with default settings. The console output is as follows: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified A workaround for this is to run xhost +localhost before the xorg start, which possibly introduces a security hole. Plane Shift can be found here: http://www.planeshift.it/download.html Alpha Centauri demo can be downloaded here: http://www.brothersoft.com/games/sid-meier-s-alpha-centauri-planetary-pack-d... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.