On Tue, 7 May 2013 16:46, Raymond Wooninck
On Tuesday 07 May 2013 16:40:09 Yamaban wrote:
On this topic, but broader:
Just why isn't there a generic user for all DisplayManagers? User lightdm, kdm, gdm, shit-the-fuck-dm does NOT make any sense in terms of longterm ease-of-maintainability.
Are there machines out there whre more than one DM runs at once?
To stop this cluster-bug-fuck we need either a group "displaymanager" where ALL dm-users are members of, or ONE generic user "displaymanager"
Please, let sense and maintainability prevail.
I guess that this is already the case and all the displaymanagers are using root as that ONE generic user, but is this the correct way ??
Historically yes, root was used, actually no for gdm, lightdm, and now gdm. Is using root the correct way? - Well, historically it was the only possible way (graphics). - From the "atm" point of view: No, it isn't. With KMS there is no direct need for uid=0, or at least no need to keep uid=0 after start and init. "Root-less X11" has come far enough, for most uses, to allow that. Atm it helps to add the DM and the actual X11 users to the group 'video', see gdm for example. - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org