Hi Daniel, On 28.06.19 10:23, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Fri 2019-06-28 10:04:44 +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: >> On 23.06.19 12:21, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> I'm used to use 'startx' and ~/.xinitrc to bring up Xorg+KDE: >> >> This makes your setup depend on a suid binary. > > Can you give more details? I know that some older systems did rely on X > or startx or something being setuid, but i think more modern systems > don't require that. On a debian testing (buster) system, for example, i > don't believe that any of the binaries are suid.
The setuid binary is called xserver-xorg-legacy and can be installed in buster (new installs don't get it afaik, but I'm not sure about upgrading): https://packages.debian.org/de/buster/xserver-xorg-legacy Matthias explicitly mentioned he used startx so I think this is relevant. Bye Michael
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