From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: X11 questions Date: 28 Oct 1992 10:25:56 -0600
minnear@ll.mit.edu (Bob Minnear) writes:
>I am very pleased to have gotten Linux and X (almost) running on my
>486, but I still have to iron out a few things. I'm running X8514
>(as I have an ATI card) for my server and can run X as root, but not
>as a normal user. This would suggest a permissions problem and I am
>checking into this, but so far haven't found the problem. So my question
>is, can somebody point me to the permissions for the X stuff? I used the
>zxfix of disk x7, but the problem persists.
> Bobby
There are two things that have to be setuid root in X. The server and xterm.
Your server executable is probably called X8514 and is linked to X. To
change the permissions, do a chmod 4755 on xterm, and the server executable.
James