Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 28 November 2015 10:48:00 Nicolas George wrote:
> L'octidi 8 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > I can access a plethora of VTs without changing to root.
>
> You, as far as I know, are a human being, not a Linux process. You do not
> access VTs, you access computer keyboards that allow you to control VTs
> through the courtesy of the getty program. The getty program run as root.

Thanks, Nocolas.  But that still doesn't really explain it.  If $USER can 
access it, provided $USER is human, courtesy of the getty program, why can 
Xorg not access it via the getty program?  

And in what other ways does the system distinguish between human $USERs and 
non-human $USERs?  I didn't know that there were any.

Lisi