XFree86 hates non root users!!! plz help!!!

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

David Loszewski <stealth215 at mediaone.net> writes:

> I did what you suggested and I still got the same error when trying to 
> do a 'startx' under a different user otherthan root.
> 
> I did  a 'ls -l' on wrapper to see what it came up with for permissions 
> and whis is what I got:
> 
>     sickness# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
>     -rwsr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  7602 Sep  4 20:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
> 
> thx,
> Dave

Hm. If the binary is set-uid root, but it still complains that it isn't,
then I can think of only two possibilities: either the filesystem it's on
is mounted nosuid, or it's misinterpreting some other condition and 
reporting
it incorrectly. For instance, if it's complaining because it cannot write
to an nfs-mounted directory. 

The third possibility, of course, is that there's another factor I'm 
overlooking :-P

As for the filesystem, here's an example of what I mean:

    % mount
    ....
    /dev/sda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
    ....
    /dev/hdd1 on /disk2 type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=jabr)

Note that my root filesystem is mounted with the option "rw" (read/write),
whereas my /disk2 filesystem is mounted with a bunch of options including
"nosuid". The "nosuid" option tells the system to ignore the set-uid flag
on the file.




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