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Author: Alessandro Vesely
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To: Mark Hindley
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] elogind, seatd and alternatives
On Wed 13/May/2026 17:57:21 +0200 Mark Hindley wrote:
> I imagine you have xserver-xorg-legacy installed? Which is a setuid xorg
> wrapper.



Nope.

Looking at the startx script, it seems it calls xinit (which is an executable)
with a $server argument, which defaults to /usr/bin/X, which is a symlink to
/usr/bin/Xorg, which is a script which executes /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.wrap. The
latter is setuid.

Cumbersome, isn't it?


Best
Ale
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