Bug 424984 – x11-base/xorg-server: allow to run as non-root

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 556834
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description wbrana 2012-07-05 22:11:04 UTC]

Created attachment 317362 [details]
patch for testing, insert some UID except 0 instead of SOME USER ID

xorg-server shouldn't run as root.

[Comment 1 taaroa 2012-07-06 17:06:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> xorg-server shouldn't run as root.
What user should X be run as?

References:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001295.html
http://lwn.net/Articles/341033/
http://lwn.net/Articles/341035/
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM2MA
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless

[Comment 2 wbrana 2012-07-06 17:09:48 UTC]

I'm using user xorg

[Comment 3 wbrana 2012-07-07 13:03:51 UTC]

example:
1. add new user xorg
useradd -u 600 -d /dev/null -s /sbin/nologin xorg
2. replace SOME USER ID with 600 in patch

[Comment 4 wbrana 2012-07-09 14:15:17 UTC]

Created attachment 317692 [details, diff]
better patch

1. uid of user xorg is read from /etc/passwd
2. if setuid to user xorg fails Xserver is terminated

[Comment 5 wbrana 2012-07-09 14:24:39 UTC]

upstream bug
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51913

[Comment 6 Matt Turner 2017-03-04 19:16:02 UTC]

I think USE=suid and a solution to bug 556834 will solve this in a better way.

It's not a direct duplicate, but...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 556834 ***