On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, J. S. Connell wrote: > [recipient list trimmed] > > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote: > > > What happens with xdm? Does it run the X server as root and > > keep it that way? Or is it restarted when the user logs in? > > (I haven't used xdm in like 3 years.) > > Well, in all cases, the wrapper which invokes the X server is setuid root. > It oughtn't matter what the group/other permissions are, as long as > /dev/fb* are owned by root. Then again, I haven't done any experimentation > in this respect - I didn't actually have to change the permissions.
Then perhaps something got unset from being SUID root on my system during installation. Looking at /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, the last line exec's xinit ... ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit shows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10016 Feb 23 22:58 xinit Which is clearly not SUID root... I have no reference point, though so I don't know whether this is correct or not, and this may be the key to our problems. > > > The /dev/mouse link has to be created: "ln -sf sunmouse /dev/mouse" > > > > > > I think everyone agrees with this. The issue is where should be fix > > > it. Should we just hack the boot-floppies to do this? Is this a > > > base-files bug? A xserver-sun bug? (I don't think the latter) > > > > Does anything other than X use /dev/mouse? How about gpm? I'd > > say if X is the only thin to use /dev/mouse then it's the latter > > else the former. > > Nothing actually explicitly refers to /dev/mouse unless you tell it to, I > think, although I believe many things default to it. > > The reason (as I understand it) is that on Intel boxes there are a whole > pile of different mouse devices - various kinds of bus mouse plus serial > mice - so /dev/mouse evolved as a convenience. Most useful when the > installer asks you "What kind of mouse do you have?" and automagically > configures the link for you. > > On Suns, though, there is only one kind (I think - maybe the PCI keyboard/ > mouse stuff does things differently?), which is /dev/sunmouse. If that's > the only mouse device, then perhaps the base ought to contain the > /dev/mouse -> /dev/sunmouse symlink. Sure, why not? Or then, if the *only* mouse device is /dev/sunmouse then /dev/mouse could be the device and /dev/sunmouse can be skipped altogether... I'm indifferent... it's truly a matter of preference. I for one would probably just do the symlink method. Also, on the topic of of which kernel to package... yeah, I'd vote for the 2.2.5 kernel being used. I have a happy 2.2.5 SS10: Linux sparcy 2.2.5 #1 Mon Mar 29 01:04:53 PST 1999 sparc unknown
