Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag "suid" in both use.desc and use.local.desc
Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:50:02
Message-Id:	`20121231144723.4ff65c49@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag "suid" in both use.desc and use.local.desc by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>

1	On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:21:10 +0000 (UTC)
2	Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3
4	> I was curious, however, as I'd been reading about running X as
5	> non-root,
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7	I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a normal user on
8	linux and without suid. The only important things to me that break on
9	these systems is hotplugging mice etc. and which could be quite easily
10	fixed if it was worth the time. I've found a log out triggering a
11	relaunch good enough with 0 complaints for now.
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13	You might be interested that the default on OpenBSD is for X to run as
14	the X11 user and xdm to run as root and involves no hackery or issues
15	but still some root priviledges.