On 2/8/24 04:25, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
On 08.02.24 00:19, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
If the Xserver is run as setuid root,
On which platforms is that still the case ?
Platforms which support users starting the Xserver directly
(startx/xinit/etc
instead of via systemd service
On 08.02.24 13:41, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
I'm for example still using it this way (I'm mainly developing and I
don't always need a graphical interface and don't want to waste
permanently resources by using and administrating a display manager
for which I'm the sole and temporary user).
Not
On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 01:25:24PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> > >
> > > On which platforms is that still the case ?
> >
> > Platforms which support users starting the Xserver directly
> > (startx/xinit/etc
> > instead of via systemd service or display manager) on devices
On 08.02.24 00:19, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Hi,
Does WIN32 still mean 32bit Windows or also more modern ones like
w10/w11 ?
I believe it's still defined for 64-bit Windows, as stated on
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/additional-considerations
but I never code or
On 2/5/24 06:41, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
On 02.02.24 21:05, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Hi,
I suspect for the OS'es that the xserver code builds on today, that
could be replaced by #ifndef WIN32, which would then allow the first
half of that #ifdef in Fopen to be deleted, leaving
On 03.02.24 03:41, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1266
great :)
I've almost had done it on my own.
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On 02.02.24 21:05, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Hi,
I suspect for the OS'es that the xserver code builds on today, that
could be replaced by #ifndef WIN32, which would then allow the first
half of that #ifdef in Fopen to be deleted, leaving just the simpler
case, since Fopen is already not built
On 2/2/24 12:05, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 2/2/24 05:45, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
Hello folks,
I wonder whether we still need the Fopen() function.
It's a funny and complicated way of loading a file with dropped privs
(by calling `cat` on that file !).
It only does the cat
On 2/2/24 05:45, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
Hello folks,
I wonder whether we still need the Fopen() function.
It's a funny and complicated way of loading a file with dropped privs
(by calling `cat` on that file !).
It only does the cat if HAS_SAVED_IDS_AND_SETEUID is not
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes:
> But this doesn't make much sense to me: why should the xserver - if
> started as root (but dropping privs) - be prevented from reading an
> xauth file ?
Maybe for NFS? Imagine (it's the late 90s and) you've got a workstation
running an X server as
Hello folks,
I wonder whether we still need the Fopen() function.
It's a funny and complicated way of loading a file with dropped privs
(by calling `cat` on that file !).
The only call site is LoadAuthorization() (auth.c) for loading the
Xauthority file (if one was passed to xserver via -auth
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