non root X

[Bill McGonigle]

On 08/07/2009 05:47 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> We have to undo some stuff when X exits.

I was thinking OpenSSH handles this with privilege separation, maybe X
could too?

Sure enough, there's a paper on it (from '04 no less):
  ftp://ftp.laas.fr/pub/ii/matthieu/xf86-sec.pdf

-Bill

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