On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 14:28:43 +0930 (CST) 
 blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote:

 > Is your X server setuid root?  It sounds like it needs to be.  I
 > suspect you may have left off the 'p' option when untarring the X
 > binaries....

It shouldn't need to be:

basalt (thorpej) ~ 133% ll /usr/X11R5/bin/XhpBSD 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1296991 Oct 19  1994 /usr/X11R5/bin/XhpBSD*
basalt (thorpej) ~ 134% ll /dev/grf* /dev/hil*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   10,   0 Sep 30  1994 /dev/grf0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   0 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   1 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil1
crw-rw-rw-  2 root  wheel   14,   2 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil2
crw-rw-rw-  2 root  wheel   14,   3 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   4 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil4
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   5 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil5
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   6 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil6
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   14,   7 Sep 30  1994 /dev/hil7
basalt (thorpej) ~ 135% 

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