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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X server needs to be setuid root?
Message-ID: <717@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 00:26:23 GMT
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
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We must have done something wrong installing X11R2 on our Sun 3/60
running SunOS 3.4.

The server (Xsun) seems to run properly only when setuid root.

We don't mind this so much, but it's a problem when you want to
kill the server by having the distinguished first application exit.
It can't kill a server running as root.

It's simple enough to write a setuid server-killer, but I figure
there must be a better solution.  Can anyone help?

-- 
Bob Weissman
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