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
