On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > It isn't clear what the "correct" permissions are. > Setting the "sticky" or suid bit (the 4 in chmod 4711) makes the machine
The sticky bit (also called saved-text bit) is not the same as the suid bit. The former was originally a speed up on systems with poor VM handling, the latter makes a program run effectively in an other user's name. (saved-text is bit 9, guid is bit 10, and suid is bit 11) > Many distributions come configured to start X with xdm, kdm or gdm. > In that case the suid bit isn't needed, since these programs are already > running as root. You only need that bit if you need to allow ordinary > users to run startx. On many systems you don't need to do that, so > it is reasonable for Red Hat and Debian to ship XFree86 with the bit not > set. I haven't used xdm/gdm/kdm on my machine except by mistake. At least the unofficial XFree86 packages for woody (Debian 3.0) use the permissions 4711, I think 2.2 and the official 3.0 packages do too. In any case, that's why the user should be pointed to the distribution vendor first ;) -Peter _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
