On 06/28/10 05:18 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote:
Ubuntu will soon be running X11 as non root. Will also Solaris/OpenSolaris do
the same?
It already has for years. Run the ps command to see.
$ /usr/ucb/ps -auxww | grep X
rugrat 1006 0.4 0.811500089876 vt/2 S Jun 23 42:00
/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp -br -auth
/tmp/gdm-auth-cookies-s.ay9b/auth-for-
rugrat 7249 0.0 0.0 7044 1156 pts/21 S 07:59:07 0:00 grep X
$
During initialization, the X server process temporarily
promotes itself to root during device and screen initialization.
After this completes, the process goes back to the user id that
launched the desktop.
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