On 7 May 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > What's commonly referred to as "Xwrapper" is just that: it's a > so-called "wrapper" program that does some work (in this case, getting > necessary permissions and dropping root priviledges) and the starts > the real X server. On a normal Debian installation, such a wrapper > exists; it's the (short binary) file /usr/X11R6/bin/X. That looks at > /etc/X11/Xserver, and decides whether or not to allow the X server to > be run, and if it does allow it, which server.
The /etc/X11/Xserver was the key to the problem. Now X runs well as normal and super user. Thanks! Now my computer is better place to live:) Esko Lehtonen PS. > EPL> How dangerous is it to run Xserver as suid root if I am not connected > EPL> to any network? > > IMHO, it should be fairly safe to run an X server suid root. Ok. I suppose it was XFree86-Howto where 'strongly discouraged' running X server as suid root. That's why I was concerned.