Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:16:05PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El 21/02/11 12:12, lukas press escribió:
> > On Monday 21 Feb 2011 14:53:54 Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > El 21/02/11 11:46, lukas press escribió:
> > > > Oh, ok thanks.  But isn't this creating a n unneccesary security hole,
> > > > running X as root?
> > > >
> > > > Debian, Red Hat etc don't use setuid bit on Xorg, i've checked.
> > >
> > > boot with file_caps=1
> >
> > Care to expand on that?
>
> The setuid bit has been replaced by posix file capabilities
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-posixcap.html

Just not for Xorg.

Ciao, Marcus
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