Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon Apr 11 16:37:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Chuck Theobald wrote:

> Interestingly, the suggestion that root needs to own /tmp/.X11-unix is 
> impossible, as root is an "invalid user".

This is a message left over from the unix versions of Xorg. I'm just too
lazy to go through the whole get a patch into the stable branch of Xorg 
to address this message. If anybody cares, file a patch at bugs.freedesktop.org
and fight the security considerations of the xorg board.

bye
	ago
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