On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> I was curious, however, as I'd been reading about running X as > non-root, I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a normal user on linux and without suid. The only important things to me that break on these systems is hotplugging mice etc. and which could be quite easily fixed if it was worth the time. I've found a log out triggering a relaunch good enough with 0 complaints for now. You might be interested that the default on OpenBSD is for X to run as the X11 user and xdm to run as root and involves no hackery or issues but still some root priviledges.
