Feature changed by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Feature #310622, revision 5 Title: Run xserver without root privileges openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now that we have KMS enabled in the distribution we are a step closer of being able to run the xserver with just user privileges, and thus making openSUSE more secure. About a year ago I read a blog post of a moblin developer stating that achieving this is not that hard, but I've yet to see another distro achieving it. Nevertheless I think we can start to think about it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It all boils down to increase the security of openSUSE, as stated below. Discussion: #1: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) (2010-10-02 21:32:27) I am thinking about the big variety of graphics chips supported by a modern X-server. e.g. I am currently writing this on VIA unichrome graphics. But I have no idea how many of those do not have KMS yet / would not work with a root-less xserver. Once this question has a nice answer, moving towards a root-less xserver is probably a good option. #2: Tom Zöhner (zoehneto) (2010-10-02 22:37:27) (reply to #1) This is a very important point, because for example the proprietary NVIDIA driver doesn't support KMS. + #3: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) (2010-10-03 06:03:22) + (reply to #2) + And probably never will (unless of course nvidia driver goes open + source). Perhaps I should have added that we should provide a root-less + xserver when possible. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310622