XF32286 hates non root users!!! plz help!!!
David Loszewski
stealth215 at mediaone.net
Fri Dec 7 17:40:42 EST 2001
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
John Abreau wrote:
>David Loszewski <stealth215 at mediaone.net> writes:
>
>>Fatal server error:
>>xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root
>>
>
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 5168 Sep 6 00:27 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
> ^ ^^^^
> set-uid bit owned by root
>
>It's complaining that Xwrapper isn't set-uid root. Either the bit is not
>set, or (less likely but possible) the filesystem it's on is mounted with
>a no-suid option.
>
>To fix it, run the following as root:
>
> # chown root /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
> # chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
>
>
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