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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X server needs to be setuid root?
Message-ID: <720@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 18:21:44 GMT
References: <880419085247.195@bl-rtsg>
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Lines: 16
Summary: /dev/fb IS mode 666

In article <880419085247.195@bl-rtsg>, jef@LBL-RTSG.ARPA (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> Yes, on Suns a better solution is to make sure that /dev/fb is mode 666.
> Apparently this is the default setting in SunOS 3.4, but not in older
> versions.  With the frame buffer writable, the server doesn't need to
> be setuid.

Our /dev/fb is (and has always been) mode 666, and the X server still
refuses to run non-setuid.

Any more clues?  To paraphrase Freud, "What does Xsun want?"

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