Subject: Re: XamigaMono Server for R6
To: None <mw@eunet.ch>
From: Andy Heffernan <ahh@netcom.com>
List: amiga-x
Date: 09/16/1994 13:24:18
>
> [sorry for not replying on the initial article]
>
> > > Bernd> Hello, I'm sorry that I made an mistake for the R6 server
> > > Bernd> on Regensburg. I forget to set the setuid and owner root
> > > Bernd> for the the server, so you get problems when you want to
> > > Bernd> use it unter non-root. Thanks to Hubert Feyrer who told me
> > > Bernd> that.
>
> Why ON EARTH would you want a huge program such as the Xserver to run
> as root?? Sounds almost worse than sendmail :-) Seriously, what functionality
> doesn't work if the server isn't run as root? I'm curious because I'm building
> a (retina) R6 server myself, and haven't so far faced ANY problems running
> it as a normal user.
I would bet that the problem is with permissions on /dev/mouse* and
/dev/kbd. I don't know the the "right" thing to do is, but I just
made them mode 0666. I note that one of our Solbournes here does
the same thing, so that's good enough for me:
(cider:/users/ahh/sys.102)$ ls -ld /dev/kbd
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 29, 0 Feb 9 1993 /dev/kbd
(cider:/users/ahh/sys.102)$ ls -ld /dev/mouse*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 13, 0 Feb 9 1993 /dev/mouse
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 13, 1 Feb 9 1993 /dev/mouse1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 13, 2 Feb 9 1993 /dev/mouse2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 13, 3 Feb 9 1993 /dev/mouse3