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On 2019-12-10 00:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: |
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> i login in text (no gui login). i think xdm is fundamentally a |
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> redundant concept that should not have existed as per occam's razor. |
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> i use i3, and start it by `startx`. i can auto-start startx upon |
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> login, but i like it better this way, as i may not always want gui |
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> stuff. |
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I agree with the feeling, and in fact I did the same for some years. |
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But this has the side effect that Xorg binary must be setuid root. Now, |
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from the POV of pure security, this is not any worse than having a |
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bonafide root daemon (xdm) run Xorg on your behalf. But I want to |
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minimize or even eliminate setuid binaries in general, so I keep track |
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of them; and this makes Xorg to be an annoying exception to be always |
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kept in mind. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists |
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which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. |