Re: [mu sudo]

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 08:01:34 CEST


On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:12:45PM -0700, Joshua Hudson nicely wrote:
> I do not know, but I think other users may be able to startx if it is in the
> sudoers file, like so "user /usr/X11R6/bin/startx"
> where user is the user who is permitted to start X-windows, although they
> may remain root after X starts. Try it and find out.
>
> A better method might be to remove the comment from the startx line in
> inittab. You might have to setup -s lock to make this work.
>

"startx" is only a wrapper script around "xinit" and "XF86_VGA16", in
a word: X.
Maybe, there is some more elegant method, but a crude command:

                # chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16

might work.

Michele

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