[gentoo-user] Rootless X without elogind

[Björn Fischer]

Hi folks,

on my laptops and other private computers I normally just login on the
virtual console and "startx" or "xinit" -- no fancy stuff like display
managers.

Recently I switched to rootless X (finally, after gentoo dropped "suid"
by default on Xorg long ago). But I did not want to bloat my system with
elogind (not to mention systemd), so I came up with a much less complex
solution:

I created a small PAM module "pam_tty.so", which simply chowns the
corresponding /dev/ttyN on a successful login on a virtual console. All
other privileges can be granted by Unix groups. So yes, rootless X
without elogind is possible.

pam_tty.so is available on github:

   https://github.com/bjorn-fischer/pam_tty

Any thoughts on this?


Cheers,
Björn