On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:13:34 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> writes: > > logged in user is king. you'd have to modify the xserver itself to have > > such a > > separation and provide a back-channel that can only be accessed by root to > > implement what you want. reality otherwise is that any x client can kill off > > Thank you, this discussion inspired me to write a hack. The basic idea > is that Xorg listens on /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 instead of /X0 and a socat > process proxies traffic from /X0 to /X1. When the SAK key is hit, root > can kill -STOP socat to prevent the X clients of the normal user from > interfering. root can then run X applications that talk directly to > /X1. > Sorry if I missed it, but what prevents normal users from connecting to :1 directly?
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