On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:47:36AM -0800, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Don't have a Solaris 7 box to check. Not sure why your Solaris 8 has
> a SUID Xsun install, either.
Xsun is setgid-root on Sparc, setuid-root on Intel. (The set*id bits in
either case are only needed for people starting the server from the command
line via programs such as openwin & xinit. If you use dtlogin or xdm to
start X, they run as root already so don't need set*id bits.)
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