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. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
