On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 01:14:38PM -0800, Michael Forney wrote: > Usually how it works is either the display server itself needs to be > setuid to open those input devices, or some other program (commonly > systemd-logind) needs to open it on its behalf. I believe Xorg with > systemd disabled will need to be setuid because of this. >
I lack the words to describe how broken I think it is, to make an application setuid because you couldn't be arsed to set file permissions properly. Or at least, the words to do so in a civilised manner. Ciao, Markus
