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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:03:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@eubie.lbl.gov>
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Subject: XFree86 has no suid set
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>Number:         39445
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       XFree86 has no suid set
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 17 15:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 17 17:24:55 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 17 17:24:55 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Jin Guojun (DSD staff)
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


	FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE

>Description:
	/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 has not suid mode set, therefore
	ordinary users cannot start X.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	chmod u+s /usr/X11/bin/XFree86

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: parv <parv@pair.com>
To: Jin Guojun <jin@eubie.lbl.gov>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/39445: XFree86 has no suid set
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:15:59 -0400

 in message <200206172203.g5HM3wAc000433@eubie.lbl.gov>,
 wrote Jin Guojun thusly...
 >
 ..
 > >Description:
 > 	/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 has not suid mode set, therefore
 > 	ordinary users cannot start X.
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > 	chmod u+s /usr/X11/bin/XFree86
 
 isn't the x11/wrapper port just for this purpose?
 
 -- 
  
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 17 17:24:20 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is intentional; please use the wrapper port if you need 
to start X as an unprivileged user, or use a display manager 
such as xdm/wdm 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=39445 
>Unformatted:
