On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:09:26AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:04:19PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > So, when I tried to run startx, I got a complaint that the permissions > > on /tmp/.X11-unix were "suspicious". Turns out that the permissions > > were fine ("drwxrwxrwt"), but the dir was owned by "aaron:aaron", > > rather than "root:root".
> There's a different error message for that: Interesting. Neither of those messages seem right, but I'm going from memory here. I'll try to recreate the problem when I have a little time. > > So, I was wondering: is there a reason that the XFree86 server can't > > just chown the directory, in the case where the permissions are fine > > but the owner is wrong? Because otherwise, there seems to be an > > impasse of sorts. > Symlink attacks. Dammit, that even makes sense. Well, if this were C, I could devise an easy workaround. But since it's shell, I dunno. I'll have to look into it. Crap. Thanks. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku