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* Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server without suid still runs as root?
  @ 2020-06-25 14:20 99% ` John Covici
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From: John Covici @ 2020-06-25 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:58:30 -0400,
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 
> There's a news item about disabling the "suid" use flag on
> x11-base/xorg-server, which makes it runs as a normal user rather
> than root. Version 1.20.8-r1 of the ebuild disables "suid" by
> default. After updating to that and rebooting, X still runs as
> root though:
> 
>   $ ps aux | grep X
>   root 270 1.7 0.6 226892 107052 tty1 Ssl+ 13:52 2:08 /usr/bin/X
> 
>   $ emerge --info xorg-server
>   [...]
>   x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1::gentoo was built with the following:
> USE="ipv6 libglvnd systemd udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc (-elogind)
> -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -suid -unwind
> -wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" ABI_X86="(64)"
> 
> Am I missing something? I'm using systemd. If it matters, the
> "kms" use flag in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers is enabled.

If I do ls -l /proc/<xorg process> both of them are not root, 1 as gdm
and the other as me which got created after I logged in.  Try doing
that and see what you see.

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