On Wednesday 18 December 2002 08:49 pm, Jim Harford wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed FreeBSD 4.6 (from CD distribution set) and used the
> built-in installer to install XFree86 version 4.2.0.1. After fighting with
> the configuration options for my video card, I got it working if I invoke
> startx from the root. However, the only way I could find to run startx
> from a user account was to change the SUID bit on the file
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. Is this the best way to do this? Am I opening
> myself up to some security problem? I am relatively new to unix, is the
> normal stuff that any software installation involves?
>
> Jim Harford
>
If it works like Linux put this in the XF86Config file usually in /etc/X11;
Section
Mode 0666
EndSection
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