On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 22:06 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 03/26/12 09:07 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote: >>> Maybe I have it right this time: On Debian, there's no problem, >>> because /usr/bin/X is a trivial suid wrapper and /usr/bin/Xorg is not >>> installed suid. Solaris and other Unixes could take the same approach, >>> right? >> >> While I've heard about this before, I've not seen the sources for this >> wrapper >> (can someone provide a pointer? all I'm finding in google is man pages & bug >> reports that reference it) > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-xorg/debian/xorg.git;a=history;f=debian/local/xserver-wrapper.c As a warning, this is GPL-2: 88 * This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify 89 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 90 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, 91 * or (at your option) any later version. I stopped reading after that point, given that we are likely to do something similar, I didn't want to contaminate myself with potential GPL influence. Anyone who might actually write the code for our version of this wrapper should probably avoid reading the source. --Jeremy _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
