To be able to save/restore the XKB keymap in a /etc/pm/sleep.d script (as a workaround for Debian bug 633849), xkbcomp needs to have access to the display. The simplest solution I've found is a
xhost +si:localuser:root in my .xsession file. But some users discourage to allow this access permanently.[*] So, I'm wondering whether there could be security issues. I thought that this would be more or less equivalent to the current status as root can due pretty much anything, such as getting the user's X authority file via /proc/*/environ (my sleep.d script could do the same thing, but this is a rather dirty solution). [*] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00045.html http://superuser.com/a/573839 (This one even says that this isn't much different from a raw "xhost +"!) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140722154824.gb31...@xvii.vinc17.org
