Re: Don't forget systrace Was: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-23 Thread luke350
On 03/22/15 07:44, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Systrace is also an option but the policy writing could be a little work, the regex support is certainly helpful there. systrace -A is very helpful Excellent info; thanks. (This list has the highest signal/noise ratio among tech lists that come to mind.

Re: Don't forget systrace Was: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:14:22 -0700 luke...@onemodel.org wrote: > Thanks to all who've commented: this has been educational & useful. Systrace is also an option but the policy writing could be a little work, the regex support is certainly helpful there. systrace -A is very helpful then edit files

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-21 Thread dan mclaughlin
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:14:22 -0700 luke...@onemodel.org wrote: > On 03/16/15 19:38, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > >> luke...@onemodel.org wrote: > >>> The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch > >>> amon

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-21 Thread luke350
On 03/16/15 19:38, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: luke...@onemodel.org wrote: The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch among them with Ctrl-Alt-F8, Ctrl-Alt-F9, etc, each one as a different user (separatio

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-16 Thread Ted Unangst
Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > luke...@onemodel.org wrote: > > > The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch > > > among them with Ctrl-Alt-F8, Ctrl-Alt-F9, etc, each one as a different > > > user (separatio

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > luke...@onemodel.org wrote: > > The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch > > among them with Ctrl-Alt-F8, Ctrl-Alt-F9, etc, each one as a different > > user (separation of privileges, like general browsing

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-15 Thread Ted Unangst
luke...@onemodel.org wrote: > I'm new to desktop OpenBSD (longtime debian user) and have read in > FAQs, all relevant man pages I could find, and searched the internet > and mailing list archives, and am not sure what I'm doing wrong or have > missed. > > The goal: I'd like to run multiple simult

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-15 Thread luke350
On 03/15/15 04:15, Miod Vallat wrote: If you run another X server instance, it will use the seventh virtual console (ctrl-alt-F7). But I am not sure drm-enabled X servers can run multiple instances. Thanks. Is there a way to turn off drm, such as via a sysctl setting for kern.malloc.kmemstat.D

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-15 Thread Miod Vallat
> Now I finally (cough) notice those error messages in dmesg.boot. Not > sure how critical they are, if it's referring to missing binary blobs, > and if openbsd has fallen back to acceptable/stable defaults or > something. But where it says "screen 1-5 added", that seems to connect > with 'man wsd

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-14 Thread luke350
On 03/14/15 15:22, luke...@onemodel.org wrote: [] The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch among them with Ctrl-Alt-F8, Ctrl-Alt-F9, etc, each one as a different [] Here is the output I get when I have one X session running and I then run "startx -- :1

running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-14 Thread luke350
I'm new to desktop OpenBSD (longtime debian user) and have read in FAQs, all relevant man pages I could find, and searched the internet and mailing list archives, and am not sure what I'm doing wrong or have missed. The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch among them