Re: Why does X run as root?

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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:38:59PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:49:33PM +0100, Matthew Garrett 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 sounds like yet another good argument for removing the need to ever
> type a root password.

How does this make it better? Then someone would spy on the user password of
someone with sudo capabilities.

Regards
Till

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