[PATCH] xfree86: Chown Xorg to 0, not root. (bug 28249)

Jesse Adkins jesserayadkins at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 15:09:12 PDT 2010


The superuser isn't always named root, but does always have uid 0.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Adkins <jesserayadkins at gmail.com>
---
 hw/xfree86/Makefile.am |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/Makefile.am b/hw/xfree86/Makefile.am
index 116113b..cd4a0ac 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/Makefile.am
+++ b/hw/xfree86/Makefile.am
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ install-data-local:
 install-exec-local: install-binPROGRAMS
 	(cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) && rm -f X && ln -s Xorg X)
 if INSTALL_SETUID
-	chown root $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Xorg
+# The superuser is not always 'root', but is always uid 0.
+	chown 0 $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Xorg
 	chmod u+s $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/Xorg
 endif
 
-- 
1.7.1



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