On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 07:04:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> That's not exactly true. Upstream Xorg allows -config/-xf86config for
> non-root with files under /etc/X11/ (given with a relative path), while
> the Debian wrapper drops privileges when these options are used, without
> looking at their argument.
Btw... while thinking about it... I belive to remember that I once tried
to switch from -xf86config to -config when I switched from XFree to Xorg
but just left it because -config didn't work while -xf86config did.
> Maybe we should change this, but otoh I'm not sure all files under
> /etc/X11/ should be allowed (/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, e.g., is only
> readable by root).
Well, IMHO it makes sense to allow different conf-files for non-root
users (for me it does :)). I understand that those files should be
supplied or at least be allowed by root, i.e. need to be placed in
/etc/X11. Afaics, Xwrapper.config is the *only* file there non-readable
for users - for whatever reason, since I'm easily able to reconstruct it
by just reading /var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.postinst and
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat.
Mario
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