On 2015-11-28, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2015 10:18:16 Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> X needs root rights to access a different VT > > Why? > > That is a real question. $USER doesn't appear to need root rights to > access a different VT.
You, sitting at the keyboard, are not a process running as your login. You are directly controlling the kernel's side of the VT driver. See how far you get writing a shell script to write/read/open a terminal you are not logged in on.
