Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:57:47 -0500

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Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.maestro.com.pl> on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 02:21:45AM +0100:
> > GGI has worked hard with the Linux OS to bring a graphics subsystem into
> > being. SVGAlib, X servers that run suid, and risky hardware detection are
> The latest X servers don't run suid root anymore and I'm personally working on
> a library that won't run suid root as well.

Eh? I just built XFree86-current, and, run throught xinit, it requires
suid root. Using XDM does not, but I'm not sure if it does so behind
the scenes or what...

-- Scott

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