Am 24.11.2015 um 19:01 schrieb Brian: > On Tue 24 Nov 2015 at 17:36:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> On 2015-11-23 00:45:57 +0000, Brian wrote: >>> On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 19:00:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >>> >>>> On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote: >>>> >>> There are 2 reasons for this change: >>> >>> 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights >> >> Do you mean that the user now needs to be root to do "startx -- vt7"? > > *I* don't mean anything. I was quoting what a developer said. But "no", > the user does not have to be root. That's completely the wrong way around. So far X has needed root privileges. To allow unprvileged users to run the X servers, the binary did have the SUID bit set, which is a big security risk. Since enabling logind support, it's actually possible to run Xorg as unprivileged user. Just check your process list with ps. In wheezy Xorg was running as root, now it runs under your userid: $ ps aux | grep Xorg michael 1887 1.6 0.8 378436 71028 tty2 Sl+ 03:08 18:22 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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