Re: [Cooker] 7.2 beta show stopper

[Leon Brooks]

Ron Stodden wrote:
> Log in as a user.
> Open a terminal window

Type: xhost localhost

> su to root
> kedit /etc/modules.conf
> You CANNOT!   X refuses to let user root use display :0.

Add the above command, and you can. There are neater (but more complicated)
solutions to allow only root and the running user to access the X server.

This is as it should be. And 7.1 did this in higher security levels.

The idea is that only the user actually running the X server should be able to
do things to/with it. Things like pushing "rm -rf /" into the keyboard buffer,
for example.

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