Bug#502120: xserver-xorg: allows different /etc/X11/X symlinks as well as /usr/bin/X

2008-11-20 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:20:02 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:26 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: There used to be some logic to change the /etc/X11/X symlink via debconf until about a year ago (it used to be needed when we had hardware specific X servers, which

Bug#502120: xserver-xorg: allows different /etc/X11/X symlinks as well as /usr/bin/X

2008-10-13 Thread Luca Capello
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+18 Severity: wishlist User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: package-installation Hi there! Please keep the Debian FSO Team [1] mailing list always Cc:ed. If you do so, no need to cc: me, I read the list. I discovered these issues because of the Xglamo KDrive

Bug#502120: xserver-xorg: allows different /etc/X11/X symlinks as well as /usr/bin/X

2008-10-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 20:14:17 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: Please keep the Debian FSO Team [1] mailing list always Cc:ed. If you do so, no need to cc: me, I read the list. I discovered these issues because of the Xglamo KDrive server [2]. The problem is described also at [3].

Bug#502120: xserver-xorg: allows different /etc/X11/X symlinks as well as /usr/bin/X

2008-10-13 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Julien! First of all, thank you for your fast and detailed reply. On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:26 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: /usr/bin/X is a setuid wrapper, which does some basic permission checks and then exec()s /etc/X11/X. Am I correct if I say that this is not X.Org specific, i.e. the