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On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:21:10 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> I was curious, however, as I'd been reading about running X as |
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> non-root, |
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I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a normal user on |
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linux and without suid. The only important things to me that break on |
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these systems is hotplugging mice etc. and which could be quite easily |
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fixed if it was worth the time. I've found a log out triggering a |
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relaunch good enough with 0 complaints for now. |
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You might be interested that the default on OpenBSD is for X to run as |
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the X11 user and xdm to run as root and involves no hackery or issues |
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but still some root priviledges. |