Re: X

[Alexey Vyskubov <wizard@alv.stud.pu.ru>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 09:22:56AM -0400, Rick Knebel wrote:
> Hi,
> I am playing around with version 1.3.1 untill my 2.0 gets here and have a
> curious problem with X.
> It will start and run fine under root.
> If I try to start it as a normal user it crashes with the message:
> Fatal Error
> xf860pen Consule:
> Server must run as root

X server have to be setuid root.

# chown root.root /usr/X11R6/bin/X
# chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/X

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Alexey Vyskubov