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 82B611382C5 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45B9EE08A2; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [159.69.161.202]) (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 E2489E088B for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1joT8e-000EvQ-4z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:46:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server without suid still runs as root? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:45:59 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20200625142450.D6E3C4005C@disroot.org> 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; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 In-Reply-To: <20200625142450.D6E3C4005C@disroot.org> Content-Language: en-US X-Archives-Salt: 21073b0f-2fce-482c-89c4-429057892cdd X-Archives-Hash: 935a193f9794a8f07fff6edb8211c230 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.)