"which X server to use" is considered part of individual system
configuration. Xwrapper executes /etc/X11/X, and is pamified such
that remote users can't start X servers.
Matt
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:14:25PM +0300, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kevin Brosius wrote:
>
> > Oh, Xwrapper is not expected to be used with 4.0.x servers. It isn't
> > part of 4.0.x installs.
>
> Hmm, then I should probably submit this to Red Hat's bugzilla. They do
> include Xwrapper into their 4.0.1 install, symlink /usr/bin/X11R6/X to
> it, and ship /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 without suid bit, thus forcing
> everyone to use Xwrapper. Maybe because they PAMified it, and don't want
> to do it again with XFree86. Or, more likely, because they want to support
> both 3.x and 4.x servers. Of course fixing this would require making
> all X configuration tools change /usr/X11R6/bin/X symlink depending on
> what version the user wants to use and that is ugly... The alternative is
> to set up another symlink in /etc/X11 and patch xinit code and {x,k,g}dm
> configs to use it, but that is not exactly nice too.
>
> --
> Alexander
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