Subject: Re: Autonice bugging my but! To: None <current-
users@NetBSD.ORG> From: William Bardwell <> List: current-users
Date: 01/25/1996 19:24:19 In article ??? Antti Miettinen  <>
wrote: >>      I didn't think the XServers would *work* when not
suid root; in fact, >>a quick chmod on my machine reveals that
XF86_S3 can't open a virtual console >>w/o being suid. >I
suppose any X server needs access to the framebuffer, keyboard
and >mouse. I've solved these things so that the device nodes
needed for X >server are owned by group xyz and the Xserver
binary is sgid xyz. This >is not very good solution. What I
would like, is login or xdm to chown >the device nodes to the
user who logs in.  It can be done even better than that...we
have a setup based on the fbtab concept done on sunos, such that
relevant devices are owned by whoever logs in on the console...
Unfortunatly the Xservers (for i386) have checks to make sure
they are running as root in them...this is retarded, why don't
they just try opening things and see if