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From: Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-base/xorg-server: No longer enabling suid by default.
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 06:30:44
Message-Id: 1abb7de2-b633-a71e-1620-449af77c1b8c@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-base/xorg-server: No longer enabling suid by default. by Philip Webb
1 Hi,
2
3 On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote:
4 > I'ld rather you didn't.
5
6 You didn't provided any rationale for that. Running X as root is anti
7 pattern, especially nowadays when so little effort is required to not
8 have to run it as root.
9
10 You can either enable elogind, or you can enable suid if you want to
11 preserve your status quo, we're talking here about defaults that user
12 can change if he has a reason to do so.
13
14 -- Piotr.

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