From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server without suid still runs as root?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:45:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rd2db7$1h8q$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200625142450.D6E3C4005C@disroot.org>
On 25/06/2020 17:24, inasprecali wrote:
> 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.
Ah, that explains it them. I'm indeed using SDDM (due to its native
support in Plasma.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-25 14:46 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
2020-06-25 14:45 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
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