Michael Tokarev wrote: > When you run something under strace, setuid/setgid bits > are ignored by the kernel, the processes will run as > user who started them. This is significant difference > in environment with and without strace. JFYI.
Thanks, I should have remembered (allowing ptrace to control setuid programs would be a huge security hole). Sorry for the thinko. invisiblemanguard, could you give an exact set of commands and the exact output produced, when 1) starting X as a normal user 2) starting X as root ? (Generally speaking, unless it involves sending megabytes of data, being concrete when submitting bugs --- i.e., giving the reader a complete account of what happened --- always tends to be helpful.) I'd also still be interested in output from 3) ls -l /usr/bin/X /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config 4) sudo strace -o /tmp/startxlog startx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110414073829.GA5870@elie
