According to Brett Lymn:
>
>According to Jason Thorpe:
>>
>> > Is your X server setuid root?  It sounds like it needs to be.  I
>> > suspect you may have left off the 'p' option when untarring the X
>> > binaries....
>>
>>It shouldn't need to be:
>>
>>basalt (thorpej) ~ 133% ll /usr/X11R5/bin/XhpBSD 
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1296991 Oct 19  1994 /usr/X11R5/bin/XhpBSD*
>>
>
>DOH!! I got it confused with xterm I think - time for more coffee I think.
>

Actually, I have just check in my i386 machine and the X server is
setuid there.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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