On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 15:48:48 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-11-25 12:58:15 +0000, Brian wrote: > > This is where I think the confusion lies. Quoting > > > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23004/ > > > > again. > > > > There are 2 reasons for this change: > > > > 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights > > 2) The old behavior creates a new session-id (as returned by getsid()), > > without registering it with PAM, this breaks session managers such > > as systemd-logind. > > > > Reason 2) is the one relevant to the first post in the thread. > > Both are relevant. But if xserver-xorg-legacy is used as you suggested, > then I suppose that reason 2 is the one that is still relevant.
I was thinking of the OP being on Jessie. The server is SUID there. > But then, if the user does "startx -- vt7", he would still be affected > by the session manager issue, possibly except with some PAM > reconfiguration. "startx -- vt7" won't work (tested). X only runs on the virtual console it was started from. Play with PAM? I want a quiet life. :)
