On 2020-07-22, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:00:21PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>>
>> Before I can try that, I apparently have to enable the elogind USE
>> flag because of somthing else that changed since I sync'ed yesterday.
>>
>> That only requires 6 new packages (two of them are
>> acct-{user,group}/polkitd, so it's only 4 new "real" packages. Of
>> course every self-respecting package needs to install at least one new
>> programming language -- this time it's dev-lang/spidermonkey. :/
>>
>> Sheesh.
>
> According to news item
> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-06-24-xorg-server-dropping-default-suid.html
>
> * xorg-server will no longer be "suid" *BY DEFAULT*
> * that means *THE DEFAULT* is to require a logind server like systemd
> or elogind
>
> The news item also says...
>
>> Users who do not wish to use logind interface or have rare hardware
>> that does not use KMS and because of that, require root privileges
>> to operate, can manually re-enable 'suid' and disable 'elogind' USE
>> flags in order to preserve the previous behavior.
Yes, that's what I did months ago, and everything worked fine with
Xorg using the "suid" flag and without consolekit or elogind -- until
this morning, when pam refused to upgrade unless I set the elogind USE
flag.
--
Grant
