Bug 12395

Summary: xfs: now running as user "root" not user "xfs"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Evans <chris>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Version: 7.1CC: notting
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Description Chris Evans 2000-06-17 17:20:32 UTC 
Regression: in RH6.2 xfs runs as user (and group) "xfs". In BETA1, it
runs as root!

OOPS! xfs has pretty dire security, search Bugtraq for it.
Comment 1 Chris Evans 2000-06-26 23:31:09 UTC 
Not fixed in BETA2 - version updated
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-03 05:16:07 UTC 
Fixed in XFree86-xfs-4.0-0.29 or later; the %pre script that
added the user was missing. :(