From: Andrew R. Tefft (teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com)
Date: 08/28/93 

From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
Subject: Re: Summary  Virtual Memory prob. and X as root
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1993 17:41:47 GMT

In article <CCE528.Lp3@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rhh2h@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Ron Henderson) writes:
>I have now set my X-server as root suid by 'chmod 4755 XF86_SVGA'.
>I now get the X background, but my mouse buttons still don't function
>at all (they are fine as root). The next step is to apply the same
>fix to xload, xterm, xinitrc, and twm.

Of these only xterm needs to be setuid root.