Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-27 Thread Adam Feldman
On 6/27/20 1:36 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:02:25PM +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: >> On Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:27:02 CEST Joonas Niilola wrote: >>> What's the current trend of attaching news items? It >>> makes hard to point out enhancements. >> >> Indeed, I didn't e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:02:25PM +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > On Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:27:02 CEST Joonas Niilola wrote: > > What's the current trend of attaching news items? It > > makes hard to point out enhancements. > > Indeed, I didn't even look at the previous mail that was sent l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-22 Thread Piotr Karbowski
Hi, On 21/06/2020 22.27, Michał Górny wrote: > No offense but it sounds a little chaotic to me. Which is the reasons we do those reviews. Appreciate the suggestions, just sent revision 2 as the response to the very first email in this thread, please check how it looks now. -- Piotr. signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
200622 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > On 22/06/2020 06.03, Philip Webb wrote: > [...] >> I don't want to use 'systemd', as I want to run a traditional UNIX version >> of Linux + KDE (or Fluxbox) for a simple single-user desktop system. > Then... don't use systemd ! I officially give you my approval for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-22 Thread Piotr Karbowski
Hi, On 22/06/2020 06.03, Philip Webb wrote: [...] > I don't want to use 'systemd', as I want to run a traditional UNIX version > of Linux + KDE (or Fluxbox) for a simple single-user desktop system. Then... don't use systemd? I officially give you my approval for that. Read what you quoted in your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
200621 Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:53 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> I've been running xorg-server as root for > 16 yr without any problems. >> AFAIK there are no problems re exploits via I/net browsers, >> which are started by my user as all such user software always is. >> What mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:53 PM Philip Webb wrote: > > 200621 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > > Title: xorg-server dropping default suid > ... > > The Gentoo X11 Team is announcing that starting with 15th of July, > > the x11-base/xorg-server will no longer default to suid > > and will default to using l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
200621 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > Title: xorg-server dropping default suid ... > The Gentoo X11 Team is announcing that starting with 15th of July, > the x11-base/xorg-server will no longer default to suid > and will default to using logind interface instead. This change > makes xorg-server run as r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 22:09 +0200, Piotr Karbowski wrote: > Hi, > > Re-sending news item inline. > > ### > > Title: xorg-server dropping default suid > Author: Piotr Karbowski > Posted: 2020-06-22 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server > > The Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Andreas Sturmlechner
On Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:27:02 CEST Joonas Niilola wrote: > What's the current trend of attaching news items? It > makes hard to point out enhancements. Indeed, I didn't even look at the previous mail that was sent like that. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.