On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:22:08AM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote:
> Anant wrote:
> >
> > Yet again, the same exact problem I had. So far I have only been able
> > to fix this by running xdm and logging in from there. Does anyone know
> > a solution so you can actually "startx" as a non-root user? This also
> > looks like its becoming a FreeBSD-specific problem . . .
> [...]
> > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "lute.willinet.net:0" in "add" command
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > Can not open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
> >
> > So this is all I can give you at this time. When checking the log file
> > all I get is the info from the last root session.
>
> It's a security thing. You don't want something as big and complex as
> the X server to run setuid. There's a little thing called (I think)
> Xwrapper that's setuid that does what's necessary as root then launches
> the Xserver with user privileges.
>
> I've always used xdm, so I'm a bit vague about the details.
>
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The program you want is /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper. Check out man
Xwrapper for more details on why it's a good thing.
Ian
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