On Tue 24 Nov 2015 at 21:13:29 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 24.11.2015 um 19:01 schrieb Brian: > > On Tue 24 Nov 2015 at 17:36:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > >> On 2015-11-23 00:45:57 +0000, Brian wrote: > >>> On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 19:00:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote: > >>>> > > >>> There are 2 reasons for this change: > >>> > >>> 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights > >> > >> Do you mean that the user now needs to be root to do "startx -- vt7"? > > > > *I* don't mean anything. I was quoting what a developer said. But "no", > > the user does not have to be root. > > That's completely the wrong way around.
What is the wrong way round? I've merely said root is not necessary to use startx. Surely that is not incorrect? > So far X has needed root privileges. To allow unprvileged users to run > the X servers, the binary did have the SUID bit set, which is a big > security risk. Is SUID the exactly same as being root? (Having to be root to use startx was what Vincent Lefevre more or less asked).
