Bug 12014 – XFree86-4 doesn't use Xwrapper and XFree86 not suid

Bug 12014 - XFree86-4 doesn't use Xwrapper and XFree86 not suid

Summary:	XFree86-4 doesn't use Xwrapper and XFree86 not suid

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Duplicates:	12024 12134 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2000-06-09 01:35 EDT by Jeremy Katz
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2000-07-01 20:59:24 EDT
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Description Jeremy Katz 2000-06-09 01:35:18 EDT

XFree86 4.0 does not yet use Xwrapper and the XFree86 binary is not
installed suid root.  Therefore, X can't be started by a normal user from
the console via startx.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-09 10:29:34 EDT

Note that this first causes the error about not being able to write the log file
in /var/log, but even if you make that writable, you still need to suid X so
that it can open the console

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-09 10:29:42 EDT

*** Bug 12024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2000-06-12 14:09:49 EDT

I would like to add my vote to the return of Xwrapper, XF 40 works fine with it
just set /etc/X11/X to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86, and it is a must for the
3.3 servers.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-12 21:13:17 EDT

*** Bug 12134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-21 23:39:11 EDT

confirmed in beta2

Comment 6 Hans de Goede 2000-07-01 20:59:23 EDT

This bugs seems almost fixed in the just released 0.29 snapshot of Xfree:
XFree86-4.0-0.29

There is an correctly installed xwrapper now, but XFree86 itself also is suid
root (bad !) and the 3.3 servers like XF86_SVGA have standard permissions, while
they should be exute only (no read) by group and other, for safety reasons.

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-03 01:30:10 EDT

This should be fixed in 0.30; fully functional Xwrapper should be included.

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