27.05.2010 21:35, Tom Hacohen пишет:

> Mickey: Isn't X running as root pretty standard? I mean, he should
> probably hack it to run e as non-root (which is reasonable) but X itself?

Not anymore: after widespread of KMS there is no real need for X to have root
privileges except some legacy code which all major distributions plan to fix 
soon.

For example take a look at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless
and
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001293.html

for references.

best regards,
Max.

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