On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 09:00:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 8/24/19 8:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > It's installed right at the end of my log after installing the header files. > > -- Bruce Yeah, I managed to boot a system from a couple of weeks ago, which had elogind but where I'd accidentally installed Xorg suid and thought all was working.
I was going to step away from the machine, but I thought I'd look up about admin users on rootless X, and I came across: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg which notes: As of Nov. 6, 2018, the information in this section is probably outdated. You can help the Gentoo community by verifying and updating this section But then goes on to say: Now you can run X as user, however because none of login managers are currently capable of doing necessary permission handling it needs some workarounds. In particular, X run by user needs to be able to access /dev/input files and it needs to be started directly as the user. Additionally, as with using direct rendering, the unprivileged user also needs access to the video hardware, typically achieved by adding them to the video group (though certain login managers, such as ConsoleKit or systemd-logind may handle this for you). To access /dev/input files it's easiest to add them to group and allow user to access them. [end quote] I'll note that all the input event and mice|mouse chardevs are currently owned by root:input. So, I guess this gives two options for using rootles X: 1. Be an admin user, i.e. in the wheel group. 2. Be a member of the input group. In the (for me, unlikely) situations of either logging in to a desktop via ssh (when I've left a desktop running), or having TWO human users with individually assigned graphics cards, might give problems in either event. But for me, I'm starting to think that membership of the input group might be the better approach. And I still think that a minimum of one machine per desktop user (with integrated graphics if low-power is a requirement) is a better approach than trying to squeeze multiple people onto one big machine (after all, how many modern graphics cards can you actually fit into one machine ?). But for people who want to have multiple desktop users per machine, there are guides (or variants of hte same guide) at e.g. Arch, debian. Not sure how any of this fits with Pierre's earlier observation about multiple users on the same machine, and frankly that part is not my problem. Now I really WILL step away from the machine. Goodnight, thanks for the assistance. ĸen -- Adopted by dwarfs, brought up by dwarfs. To dwarfs I'm a dwarf, sir. I can do the rite of k'zakra, I know the secrets of h'ragna, I can ha'lk my g'rakha correctly ... I am a dwarf Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson (in The Fifth Elephant) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
