On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:30 pm, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> 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;
>
Opps, make that:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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