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Re: X11 should not run as root or?



Am Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:22:27PM -0400 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
>
> I was thinking of these changes in Stretch:
> 
>  * For many Intel graphics chipsets, the Stretch X server will use the
>    modeset driver instead of the intel driver. The modeset driver may
>    require non-free firmware (firmware-misc-nonfree) to activate features,
>    even on systems which did not use this firmware under Jessie.
> 
>  * For some older graphics chipsets, support has been relegated to
>    "legacy drivers", which require the old setuid X server to run. Install
>    xserver-xorg-legacy if you require one of these drivers.
> 
> Text from <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInStretch>.  This may have nothing
> to do with your issue.  It's just the first thing I could think of that
> could possibly be related.
> 

At this point I have to ask: Is my problem reproducible?

I find it problematic that if you run startx (i3-wm) as user at tty xorg still run as root by default.


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