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

[stealth215 at mediaone.net (David Loszewski)]

well...you tell me, does this look right? or should I add something?

sickness# mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1e on /home (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1g on /usr/local (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1h on /usr/src (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1d on /usr2 (ufs, local)
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)

thx,
Dave


John Abreau wrote:

>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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