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 TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C9C0158008 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86195E095D; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ore.jhcloos.com (ore.jhcloos.com [192.40.56.151]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C67BE0952 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:23:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=ore17; t=1686756203; bh=GGWZeEA+FvRqVAMfj5VDxUlmbB/1T5hSAgk7gzE+ffg=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=jygJQM640jieI9dGbKGfl66HWqA3wzPCwbY31hwgaXmkUayjXmuZHkQIepAMWI63I 2TDgUulriltdQ7XzTV8tE0A10eNdfYfN6Uit1reTPLylpop4YzPQnlwT1wXLg5nYK3 Htsp+5amoPV68M3OZc/Ip0whKeUYr0ou2fAPuRSEuKfycAHA6k9YWxjQCy0BisfbVT FXb1XDECgcxH9GkLGCiThFU2ukBrNsPPxTFSoTdUQvUilrV5JadqW1pK5IpuirhJYH aQlJ95CJUiaVaN9r8aDKuuR14D0RWhrjpTmqml6eH0jErZCR3tYL/GWw/bwntkFVCM xdogHi83xIQvw== Received: by ore.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 2F0FD2319F; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 29311B742; Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:23:15 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can't start X as user In-Reply-To: (Philip Webb's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:21:53 -0400") References: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2023 James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6; url=https://jhcloos.com/public_key/0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:23:15 -0400 Message-ID: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: ceb52775-7829-4d9f-9120-58efe54a8631 X-Archives-Hash: a174f3127da544b9b8c9dd2f9eb37b93 if nothing else works, this should: :; chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg that was changed to not be suid some time back, relying instead on things like elogind. but the old way should still work. on gentoo the suid use flag for x11-base/xorg-server would do that at merge time. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6