Bug#814313: group input is enough
> Ideally if root privs are to be dropped, logind is not available, and the
> input drivers will not have access to the input devices then the server
> could error out? But I'm not sure if that's architecturally sane. I
> guess the second best option would be, if logind is not present then the
> server perhaps should simply not drop root privs.
Alternatively it could setegid("input") when dropping root. That's of
course worse than fine-grained access controls, but far better than
wholesale root privs.
Meow!
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./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
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