On 11 March 2010 07:56, Lluís Batlle <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried, and any other users in my nixos can spawn windows in my > server, only setting DISPLAY=:0. > > Maybe we have something wrong for xauth, the magic auth string, or > things like that? > > Regards, > Lluís. > > 2010/3/11 Steve Roggenkamp <[email protected]>: >> This is the same as my Debian installation. >> >> This is actually a UNIX socket the X Windows server uses for interprocess >> communication. The socket is owned by the X windows server which runs as >> root since it has to control the display device. The permissions allow an >> arbitrary client to connect with the X Windows server. >> >> I think this is how all Linux have X Windows configured, or at least my >> Debian and Ubuntu installations. >> >> I'm thinking you would have to change the Xorg code to change the >> permissions since this socket gets opened when the Xorg server starts. Then >> I suppose you could create a group that would be allowed to communicate with >> the socket. I've not done that much coding with UNIX sockets, so I'd have >> to do some research to know whether this would even be feasible. >> >> Hope this makes sense. >> >> Steve >> >> Lluís Batlle wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> using kdm, I found this: >> $ ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 >> srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 7 mar 21:51 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 >> >> I don't like those permissions much. Can anyone suggest a better way >> to handle that in nixos? Why it has permissions 777 and ownership >> rooot? >> >> Regards, >> Lluís. >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
Hi all, Rootless X is possible but your prerequisite is a KMS capable driver : http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001293.html So it it wouldn't work of everyone at this time. Thanks, Tony _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
