> > you wrote in <9503281940.AA00c5a@vogon.islandnet.com>:
> > > Finally, I can't run startx without first su'ing to root.
> > 
> > chmod 666 /dev/grf?
> 
> and the same for /dev/kbd and /dev/mouse*.
> 
> Or make the X server suid-root.  I'm not sure which one worse.

	Well, you can let people read you keyboard input, or you can let 
the Xserver have root.  The Xserver never forks, and never does anything 
but display information recieved from sockets.
	The standard way is to make the Xserver SUID.  However, if you 
don't want it to be SUID root (for some reason, you don't trust it), then 
you make it SUID bin. and make /dev/kbd, /dev/grf?, and /dev/mouse* owned 
by bin.

	You can also do this with groups and SGID.

	Making the keyboard world R/W is a far worse idea, IMHO.

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