Colin Walters <[email protected]> writes: > Ah, well I ship Xorg without the setuid bit, so the answer then is "you > always use a display manager". I think everyone who ships with Xorg > setuid is insane, basically...
Making X able to run as a regular user is even nicer, but setuid has been a persistent security pain that I'd love to not have. > Hrm, so then are you arguing for a patch which attempts to detect this > situation inside say AbortServer() and shortcuts to just doing that? That sounds like magic to me. Looking at AbortServer, I wonder if we couldn't just stop calling CloseWellKnownConnections, OsCleanup and CloseDownDevices and just call AbortDDX to get the screen back to sanity. -- [email protected]
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