Hi! > If this has already been brought up, you have the right to stone me to > death, But I havent seen it and ive searched, so here it is: > > I was fooling around today, and decided to rm /tmp/.X11-unix and then make > a symbolic link from a file to /tmp/.X11-unix and then startx. So I backed > up /etc/passwd and > ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/.X11-unix > and then startx'd as normal user acount, But X wouldnt start, it > complained and said "is not a directory" So, I made a symbolic link from > /root to /tmp/.X11-unix, and startx'd as a normal user, and was suprised > to have write access to /root. I tried to reproduce on 2.2.4 linux using XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: March 2 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) . I'm not able to get write access to /etc, still I'm able to create file srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 26 13:48 X0= in previously unwritable directory. Bug, it seems. [There was some talk about /tmp/.X11-unix directories, and I think that this problem might very well get _worse_ with new 3.3.3 release. Please check.] Pavel -- I'm really pavelat_private Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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