From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 028F3138334 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 18:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEA33E0A64; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 18:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout02.posteo.de (mout02.posteo.de [185.67.36.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B566E094B for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 18:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D8AC2400E5 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 19:32:20 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.de; s=2017; t=1541356340; bh=zsFmfryyTDiq5msxwVePhUDMJuWpfglfp8oHS5x4HY0=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=Rr+mQHR1oQlGboQ163FJU9EGuCGicrnE0BX06XgRwfo15DIFhZIFIi/zwSc3Yqq9o TwCyEetu3SBnz9OQjm2cVfwBzSBqI7lmN3bbbF/wm11txv+19cHgJa1c3lL70XoYPA V/cULhpStyYlVnhkcvqHMdF66LfEpsxCiZcalw9gyR4bAyHEoFvi/K6ZFNhNnpQmXZ 7t9iSdi7Nv8zLbjRCsd6uYwpP3W1cI0hslJv8o76ED49oDVEAQexGaQ4kwT2CKDlzE o0CBx65H90zd3lDaGhm7ffaKf9BNTpAqdH8k/drf9MEDEiUBbso+tcpDX61tJQr6kD eElyTugT0HGrw== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 42p4D33Cb0z9rxT for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 19:32:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 19:33:18 +0100 From: tuxic@posteo.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. Message-ID: <20181104183318.e7xqdqlkanvuscib@solfire> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20181103140151.GA5029@ACM> <9e23db72-6f1a-1159-9146-ca3c665c8b79@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e23db72-6f1a-1159-9146-ca3c665c8b79@gmail.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Archives-Salt: 53b94be8-519d-4fdf-a94e-c57ad74d6705 X-Archives-Hash: e4201a5a700ed1e429d8d32a74afaf7e On 11/03 11:20, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/03/18 07:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > HEADS UP!!! > > > > If you start your X server from the command line with, e.g. startx, you > > now need to set the new(?) suid USE flag for the xorg-server package. > > > > This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file flag, > > which causes it to run as root. > > > > The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version > > number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users > > by a NEWS item, that I can see. > > > > The matter was fairly intensively discussed in bug #669648 in Gentoo's > > bugzilla. > > > > So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting > > the suid USE flag may well be the solution. > > > > I just got hit by this on my mythtv backend, which I only start X to > configure the mythtv backend. > > Yes, enabling the suid USE-flag fixed it (or restored original behaviour?) > > Dan > Hi, is this already known? https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1055517801224396800 Is it safe to run X.org suid set? Cheers Meino