On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 20:04 +0100, arne anka wrote: > i just restartet X (or at least tried so) but had to notice that > /usr/bin/Xorg has to be set uid root to work. > i am not that famliar with the intricacies of suid and X bot it seems odd > to me that such a measure has to be be taken just be make X get up and > running. > is this something in my configuration or rather a design flaw?
Xorg needs access to the display hardware (mmap device memory) so it needs to be root. This is just the way it is. :) -- Jan Lübbe <jlue...@lasnet.de> http://sicherheitsschwankung.de gpg-key 1024D/D8480F2E 2002-03-20 fingerprint 1B25 F91F 9E7B 5D4F 1282 02D6 8A83 8BE4 D848 0F2E _______________________________________________ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
