Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	inasprecali <inasprecali@×××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server without suid still runs as root?
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:24:58
Message-Id:	`20200625142450.D6E3C4005C@disroot.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] xorg-server without suid still runs as root? by Nikos Chantziaras

1	How are you starting X in the first place? Are you using a
2	display manager? Are you running startx?
3
4	In the former case, this is perfectly normal for many display
5	managers, including SDDM. GDM, if I'm not mistaken, can and does
6	run X as a regular user if possible. Upstream has been talking
7	about adding this functionality to SDDM for a while, but so far
8	it still hasn't been merged.

Subject	Author
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server without suid still runs as root?	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>