On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:19:44PM -0600, sean hendershot wrote: > I was wondering the reason behind allowing X only to be run as root as > the default. Seems strange that this is not set to console like it has > been in the past. You're wrong about the default. Template: xserver-common/xwrapper/allowed_users Type: select Choices: Root Only, Console Users Only, Anybody Default: Console Users Only Description: Select what type of user has permission to start the X server. Because the X server runs with superuser privileges, it may be unwise to permit any user to start it, for security reasons. On the other hand, it is even more unwise to run general-purpose X client programs as root, which is what may happen if only root is permitted to start the X server. A good compromise is to permit the X server to be started only by users logged in to one of the virtual consoles. If the wrong thing is showing up as the default: 1) you've already set something else in the debconf database; or 2) the debconf frontend is buggy -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; let's Debian GNU/Linux | die doing something *useful*! branden@debian.org | -- Hal Clement, on comments that space http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | exploration is dangerous
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