root could setup /dev/xsession-errors or even ~/.xsession-errors to be an acctual null dev with a cp -a and a chown.
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:23:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > When I tried it as root, X worked, but the /dev/null became 0600. > > > So it seems it wants to chmod 0600 .xsession-errors. > > > > That would probably be a security hole (at least a DOS: make ld.so 600 > > and the system stops working), but I cannot reproduce it with > > xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-10. > > Only if you can ln -sf /lib/ld.so /root/.xsession-errors, what you > probably cannot. User with normal rights can't chmod /dev/null, and > that's (probably) why it crashes. > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
