On 08-24 12:38, Gleydson Soares wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 09:24:35AM -0600, Luke A. Call wrote: > > What would it take for me to run more than one simultanous X session, each > > as a different user? -- I tried once a few years ago, searching, reading > > man pages, and chasing error messages, and failed at the time. > > Is it known whether it is reasonably possible with the current code? > > (This is so I can take advantage of the privilege separation > > provided by the OS, while doing different activities and programs > > programs with different informal trust levels, as separate > > users, but without the cpu overhead of using "ssh -[X|Y] ...". This was > > my normal practice in my Debian days, switching among them with > > Ctrl-Alt-FN.) > Maybe you are looking for a nested X11 via Xephyr. > See this script as example [1] > [1] https://github.com/gleydsonsoares/xdroprun
And on 8-24 16:01:43, James Cook wrote: <falsif...@falsifian.org> > I don't know if it's possible to do exactly what you want, but as an > > alternative, maybe you could get a similar effect using Xnest or vnc. Thanks to both for those suggestions. I've used vnc, and looked only briefly at Xnest and Xephr, but it seems they mean having code running as both users at the same time, in one X session, in other words, one user running X, and another running apps inside that same X+plus+stuff). Rather, I'm looking for a full separation between the users, nothing shared but the obsd kernel and hardware, and no more overhead for each one than X normally has, since each user is just running flat normal X, but fully and independently of the other X user. Am I mistaken in how I understand Xnest and Xephyr? (This is not in any way a complaint or criticism, just a question. I like obsd for considered reasons. :) Thanks again, Luke Call
