On August 1, 2019 3:11:05 PM CDT, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:25:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev >wrote: >> >> Please take a look at the xinit instructions from commit 21892. >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/xinit.html >> >> Feedback welcome. >> >> -- Bruce > >The xinit part of that commit looks and sounds reasonable (I haven't >booted my new build yet, so I'm at best some hours from trying to >startx), but the xorg-server changes (only to explanations) look odd. > >./configure $XORG_CONFIG \ > --enable-glamor \ > --enable-install-setuid \ > --enable-suid-wrapper \ > --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb > > i.e. the suid install and the wrapper are still built. > >I read this as implying that for xinit the sed should not be used >when compiling, but if desired the Xorg program can be chmodded to >suid and the installed startx script altered so it will use vt7. > >But: the server is compiled as suid, so the optional chmod should >have no effect. > >ĸen >-- >One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small. >And the ones that mother gives you, Don't do anything at all. >Go ask Alice, When she's ten feet tall. > -- Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit >-- >http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev >FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Correct. Bruce's mockup was only for the xinit page. The suid binary will go. I still don't know about the wrapper. --DJ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
