From: Stephen Kasirye ([email protected])
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 11:39:34 CEST
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Joshua Hudson nicely wrote:
Yeah! It did create the a.out file. I also did Michele's command.
And the inittab option which powers up X on boot. <-- weird
My problem was not running sudo then the command!!
<<shoot me in the head>>
As another user, X was running as root! How can I change that so that,
other users can not configure the system?
Stephen.
> GCC created a.out anyway. Did you try to running it after chmod +s. After
> you follow the instructions, it should work.
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Michele Andreoli nicely wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:12:45PM -0700, Joshua Hudson nicely wrote:
> > > I do not know, but I think other users may be able to startx if it is
> in the
> > > sudoers file, like so "user /usr/X11R6/bin/startx"
> > > where user is the user who is permitted to start X-windows, although
> they
> > > may remain root after X starts. Try it and find out.
> > >
> > > A better method might be to remove the comment from the startx line in
> > > inittab. You might have to setup -s lock to make this work.
> > >
> >
> > "startx" is only a wrapper script around "xinit" and "XF86_VGA16", in
> > a word: X.
> > Maybe, there is some more elegant method, but a crude command:
> >
> > # chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16
> >
> > might work.
>
> It does not work! Even when I changed XF86_VGA16 to XF86_SVGA.
>
> Is the Eltorito, gcc uptodate?
> I get the following error message when I compile sudo.c and clrusr.c
>
> sudo.c: In function `checkdoer':
> sudo.c:286: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
>
> Stephen
>
> >
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