Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:33:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks ! -- I'm another eccentric who starts the USE list with ' -* '. > Once alerted, it's easy to add it to package.use . I'm more eccentric USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:pkginternal:repo:env.d" -- Happy Penguin Computers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
> Walter Dnes Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote: >> * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog >> USE="suid" has been created as of December 20, 2012. >> If you do not enable it, you will not be able to run startx >> as a regular user. xdm and other X login managers wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:06:00 +0800 kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > > That already has a de-facto answer; USE="suid" must be on by default > > as without it users cannot run a desktop (xorg-server does not yet > > run without root permissions) I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a norma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread kwkhui
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:53:47 +0800 > kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on > > > by default. > > > > > > Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Dale
kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on by >> default. >> >> Most likely is that Walter has USE="-suid" in his make.conf and sets >> it back on for things he's checked out personally.

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/12/12 08:28, Walter Dnes wrote: I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution. * Up til now X has bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:53:47 +0800 kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on > > by default. > > > > Most likely is that Walter has USE="-suid" in his make.conf and sets > > it back

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread kwkhui
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on by > default. > > Most likely is that Walter has USE="-suid" in his make.conf and sets > it back on for things he's checked out personally. Meaning that in > this case one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:57:02 -0600 Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote > >> * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog > >> USE="suid" has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do > >> not enable it, you will not be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote >> * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE="suid" >> has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, >> you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other >> X l

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote > > * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE="suid" > has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, > you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other > X login managers will sti