> 
> [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