The xserver (or Xwrapper) is suid root. This is necessary to access certain privileged devices.
Now I have heard that, in conformance with good security practices, the xserver quickly gives up its root privileges as soon as it has opened those devices, by changing the effective user back to the real user. However, when I run a "ps -eo euser,ruser,cmd" the effective user still appears to be root. Is this required behaviour? Is it not possible to run the xserver as an ordinary user (under Linux)? Cheers. Aurelio. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
