On Sat 28 Nov 2015 at 12:27:01 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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?
As Vincent Lefevre said, root privileges are needed to access a vt other than the one startx is used on. However, this is not sufficient because the co-operation of logind is also needed. It will not give it,
