"Carlos E. R."
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On 11/11/2019 13.30, Dan Cermak wrote:
"Carlos E. R." <> writes:
On 11/11/2019 10.49, Michael Pujos wrote:
On 11/11/19 10:06 AM, Dan Cermak wrote: Hi list,
But neither does your suggestion, as it does exactly the same thing as what Michael suggested, only via a configuration file, that I never touched and that wasn't touched in the time frame in question.
Since setting setuid root was never necessary for Xorg in the past 5 years, I'd honestly like to know why it should suddenly be now (and especially why it depends on the driver that is used).
Unfortunately, startx does not work without setuid root since many years. I'm amazed that it worked for you without doing it. Rather you did the change and forgot, or somebody else did it for you. Or you loged in as root, or some unknown bug.
Well, it worked consistently for years first on Archlinux/Manjaro, later on Fedora and until last week on Tumbleweed. I have never manually set any setuid bit and (as far as I remember) setuid bits are rarely set on openSUSE and Fedora because that requires quite a bit of paperwork (for good reasons).
It is intentional not to allow startx to run.
That is news to me. Why?
(The difference of "my" method is that it is the official one and is permanent.)
I wasn't meaning to bash your method, only to point out that it does the
same as the suggested manual fix.
Cheers,
Dan
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Dan Čermák