On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:12 AM Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
wrote:
>
> [2020-05-25 23:41:23+0200] Piotr Karbowski:
> > There are 3 common ways the xorg-server is started:
> >
> > - via XDM of some sort, usually forked as root, does not require suid,
> > systemd or elogind.
>
> Launching X as root a
Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I'ld rather you didn't.
> You didn't provided any rationale for that. Running X as root is anti
> pattern, especially nowadays when so little effort is required to not
> have to run it as root.
>
> You can either enable elo
[2020-05-25 23:41:23+0200] Piotr Karbowski:
> There are 3 common ways the xorg-server is started:
>
> - via XDM of some sort, usually forked as root, does not require suid,
> systemd or elogind.
Launching X as root and having it be suid is quite the same thing…
> - via better XDM that can into l
Hi,
On 26/05/2020 09.23, Philip Webb wrote:
> 200526 Piotr Karbowski wrote:
>> On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> I'ld rather you didn't.
>> You didn't provided any rationale for that.
>
> I thought I did (smile).
>
>> Running X as root is anti-pattern, especially nowadays
>> when so li
200526 Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I'ld rather you didn't.
> You didn't provided any rationale for that.
I thought I did (smile).
> Running X as root is anti-pattern, especially nowadays
> when so little effort is required to not have to run it as root.
I'
Hi,
On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
> I'ld rather you didn't.
You didn't provided any rationale for that. Running X as root is anti
pattern, especially nowadays when so little effort is required to not
have to run it as root.
You can either enable elogind, or you can enable suid if you w
200525 Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> There are 3 common ways the xorg-server is started:
...
> - via `startx`,
That's how I've always started Xorg.
> if systemd or elogind are present,
I don't use those.
> can work without suid, without them, suid is required.
...
> What do you think about turning
Hi,
For years the xorg-server in Gentoo was defaulting to be running with
suid, even those that does not really require it, like systemd users and
those who runs elogind still end up with X as uid 0 because of +suid
default.
Times has changed, we now have +elogind in desktop profile, xorg-server
