suid /usr/bin/Xorg?

Gian Uberto Lauri GianUberto.Lauri at eng.it
Mon Jan 12 15:02:13 CET 2009


>>>>> "aa" == arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> writes:

>> Xorg needs access to the display hardware (mmap device memory) so
>> it needs to be root. This is just the way it is. :)

aa> on all my desktops suid for /usr/bin/Xorg is unnecessary.

Yep, it's X that must be setuid root to access root-only writabe files :).

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