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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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> 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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> 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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Perhaps others can weigh in CAD 0,02 (choose your currency) at a time. |
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