From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 19:43:06 CET
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:23:07AM -0500, Sven nicely wrote:
>
>
> There is a way to start X as user. I did this before, but can not remember
> all my steps.
> The first is to set the suid bit for the X-Server. Then, everybody can start X
> and X fells well with root rights. But there are allso some pty/tty device
> rights
> witch must be changed. Sorry but, I forgot which.
> But it is possible!
yes: the "chmod +s" make that possible, but it is formally discouraged.
> The advantage is, that all programms started under X have only the user rights.
> This is very imporant while surfing in the internet.
>
It can run the internet program in a xterm, after re-loggin with
the user name.
Michele
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