> The current X uses a server wrapper to do the suid root tasks. The server
> itself isn't suid root.
The problem is not suid, but root. It doesn't matter how it came so, the
important fact is the UID of the program.
And try runnning the X server without wrapper and suid bit from a normal
user -> The X server will abort, as it can't get the IO privs it needs
to do it's dirty work :(
Andreas
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