[Sheflug] Blasted X Server again!

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:

    Barrie> I'm attempting to run the startx command as a non-root
    Barrie> user (root works OK), and the server is give the following
    Barrie> error:

To make this work directly you have to make your X server SUID root,
at least as of XFree86 3.3.  Yuck.  There are ways to avoid this, by
writing a wrapper that changes permissions or opens files then drops
privileges and passes streams and devices off to the X server.

Probably your wrapper is forgetting to deal with the log file.
/var/log is almost certainly restricted to writing by root (recent
Debians won't even allow you to read most files there unless you're root.



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