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Author: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:44:56PM +0200, karl@??? wrote:
> KatolaZ:
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:15:18AM -0500, Peter Vachuska wrote:
> ...
> > > I know that my setup is atypical and console users won't
> > > influence the direction of X. Still....
>
> > Dear Peter,
> >
> > please have a look at the ASCII Release Notes:
> >
> > https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt
> >
> > which provide an explanation of the whole X.org matter and of the
> > solutions available in Devuan ASCII.
>
> That doesn't explain why, it just says something like:
> we do like this and you can adjust to that by doing ...
> So basically you exchanged suid X with suid consolekit/elogind ?
> And if I don't need a session manager, I have been inconvenienced.


Except we (Devuan) didn't. Debian did.

>
> > I understand the frustration, but
> > the best way to get out of it is to do something to solve the
> > problem. Whatever you can.
> ...
>
> Can't you just do (don't have an ascii system to test on for the moment)
> chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg
> and then just run it as you whish ?
>


It's not as easy as it looks to you. The main reason is the
interaction with login and session managers.

HND

KatolaZ

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