On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:49:33 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:28:23PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > > > I think "run X as user Xorg if you're on KMS" would be a fine > > F15Feature to aim for. Ubuntu's been working on it too: > > Of course, doing so just turns it from "Running code as X gives you > root" to "Running code as X gives you root the moment someone types > in a root password, even if they're on a different terminal". I > accept that this is a barrier, but the only real solution is to have > each X session run as a different user - and that requires Linux to > gain revoke() support. Which unfortunately seems to be a really hard nut to crack. People have worked on it in the past. But AFAIK no one is _currently_ working on it. Andrew -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
