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From: inasprecali <inasprecali@disroot.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server without suid still runs as root?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:24:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200625142450.D6E3C4005C@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rd271m$2gm4$1@ciao.gmane.io>

How are you starting X in the first place?  Are you using a
display manager?  Are you running startx?

In the former case, this is perfectly normal for many display
managers, including SDDM.  GDM, if I'm not mistaken, can and does
run X as a regular user if possible.  Upstream has been talking
about  adding this functionality to SDDM for a while, but so far
it still hasn't been merged.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-25 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-25 12:58 [gentoo-user] xorg-server without suid still runs as root? Nikos Chantziaras
2020-06-25 14:20 ` John Covici
2020-06-25 14:24 ` inasprecali [this message]
2020-06-25 14:45   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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