Re: [mu sudo]

From: Stephen Kasirye (kassets@techmuk.ac.ug)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 12:46:43 CEST


On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Michele Andreoli nicely wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:12:45PM -0700, Joshua Hudson nicely wrote:
> > I do not know, but I think other users may be able to startx if it is in the
> > sudoers file, like so "user /usr/X11R6/bin/startx"
> > where user is the user who is permitted to start X-windows, although they
> > may remain root after X starts. Try it and find out.
> >
> > A better method might be to remove the comment from the startx line in
> > inittab. You might have to setup -s lock to make this work.
> >
>
> "startx" is only a wrapper script around "xinit" and "XF86_VGA16", in
> a word: X.
> Maybe, there is some more elegant method, but a crude command:
>
> # chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16
>
> might work.

It does not work! Even when I changed XF86_VGA16 to XF86_SVGA.

Is the Eltorito, gcc uptodate?
I get the following error message when I compile sudo.c and clrusr.c

sudo.c: In function `checkdoer':
sudo.c:286: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast

Stephen

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