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Dave Airlie wrote:
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> A few days back I ran into
>
>
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001293.html
>
> I am wondering, since we are already using KMS in most places
in Fedora,
> how far are we from achieving this by default in a Fedora
release?
non-root X is a big security hole at the moment, and until we
get
revoke() support in the kernel, we can probably move X to
running as a
special user, and maybe once we get revoke to running as the
real user.
However it doesn't solve the issue how we know we need or
don't need
root since X only figures out what graphics drivers are needed
after
starting, so if you needed a non-kms gpu driver we wouldn't
know
until after we'd started as non-root.
Dave.
Could permissions be raised temporarily? PolicyKit with
(defaulted) auto-approve to load an appropriate driver?
- --Ben (not an X/PolicyKit/kernel hacker)
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