Re: [mu startx] only root can start x.

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 13:30:45 CEST


On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:08:29PM +0100, Richard.Kirkcaldy@IC24.net nicely wrote:
> Hi,
> chmod +s /usr/X11/bin/startx should do it as root shouldn't it? I
> use RedHat most of the time now, and I don't remember having problems
> starting x, so you'll have to check the exact path to startx. The
> ownership of startx here is:-
>
> [richard@kirkcaldy richard]$ ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.4k Sep 24 1999
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

Startx is only a script; it can't be make setuid. Maybe, trying
to make setuid "xinit" and XF86_VAG16, etc, will works.

Michele

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