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Hi, |
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On 26/05/2020 09.23, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 200526 Piotr Karbowski wrote: |
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>> On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>>> I'ld rather you didn't. |
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>> You didn't provided any rationale for that. |
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> I thought I did (smile). |
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>> Running X as root is anti-pattern, especially nowadays |
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>> when so little effort is required to not have to run it as root. |
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> I've never run X as root : it's not the UNIX way. |
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I am not sure if you're trolling me here, or you genuinely not |
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understand that regardless of what user you execute `startx` on, if Xorg |
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have suid, it will start as root. |
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>> You can either enable elogind |
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> Why would anyone want to abandon the long-successful UNIX method |
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> & adopt some complex replacement ? |
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I wouldn't call running X as root to be long successful UNIX method. |
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Back in the days there was no way to ran X without root, now there is. |
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>> or you can enable suid if you want to preserve your status quo, |
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>> we're talking here about defaults |
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>> that user can change if he has a reason to do so. |
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> Yes, this is a regular problem which is unavoidable : |
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> what should the default be ? -- I want the default to be |
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> what it's always been & what matches basic UNIX principles. |
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> I can add 'suid' to 'xorg-server' in package.use , |
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> but why should I have to ? -- over to you for a rationale (smile). |
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I am not sure what kind of UNIX principles you're speaking about, the |
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default should be reasonable, running X as root is not, if someone want |
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to go against common sense and run X as root, he can do so, with |
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defaults to not run it as root. |
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-- Piotr. |
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