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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