Orvar Korvar wrote:
> Ubuntu will soon be running X11 as non root.
In very limited situations I believe, since it requires devices
with in kernel DRM/KMS support to handle the functions that X
has traditionally done in user-space on x86.
> Will also Solaris/OpenSolaris do the same?
All Solaris versions on SPARC have had the ability to run X as
a non-root user - it's the x86 implementation that requires root
privileges. You can see this even just in the package prototypes
- X on SPARC is setgid root, X on x86 is setuid root.
Solaris & OpenSolaris have also had code in to setuid from root
to the user who logs in since Solaris 2.6. The root access is
needed to initially open the devices and initialize the access
to the PCI bus, but not needed at runtime.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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