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Re: suid problem



On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:28:56 +1100 Hamish Moffatt (moffatt@yallara.cs.
rmit.edu.au) wrote:

> Hmmmm. I just reinstalled smail and the suid bit was maintained.
> However the X (S3 server) package seems to be missing the suid bit.
> Could be a bug, but the vga16 server has the same. Anyway,
> this is wandering off the topic.

No this is correct, the actual server XF86_* doesn't have any suid bit set, but the /usr/bin/X11/X wrapper is setuid root.

Phil.



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