On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:58:30 -0400, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > There's a news item about disabling the "suid" use flag on > x11-base/xorg-server, which makes it runs as a normal user rather > than root. Version 1.20.8-r1 of the ebuild disables "suid" by > default. After updating to that and rebooting, X still runs as > root though: > > $ ps aux | grep X > root 270 1.7 0.6 226892 107052 tty1 Ssl+ 13:52 2:08 /usr/bin/X > > $ emerge --info xorg-server > [...] > x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1::gentoo was built with the following: > USE="ipv6 libglvnd systemd udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc (-elogind) > -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -suid -unwind > -wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" ABI_X86="(64)" > > Am I missing something? I'm using systemd. If it matters, the > "kms" use flag in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers is enabled.
If I do ls -l /proc/<xorg process> both of them are not root, 1 as gdm and the other as me which got created after I logged in. Try doing that and see what you see. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com