FreeBSD: the next 10 years

Re:FreeBSD: the next 10 years by zanny on Sunday November 23, 2014 @12:35AM (#8647919)

> hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user

Wait, what?

This isn't some custom repo or anything, I'm just running stock Arch and have startx in my bash profile. It runs in user mode, and has for about the last half year.

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Re:FreeBSD: the next 10 years by hiphopyo on Sunday November 23, 2014 @12:53AM (#8647950)

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that that wasn't the case?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_...

  Unfortunately, to be able to run xorg in unprivileged mode, it needs to run inside a session. So, right now the handicap of running xorg as user service is that it must be run with root privileges [...snip...] It seems likely that xorg could be modified [...snip...], and then it could run unprivileged from a user service outside a session.

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Re:FreeBSD: the next 10 years by zanny on Sunday November 23, 2014 @11:32AM (#8649132)

Thats in the context of using xorg as a systemd user service. You can run startx as a normal user and have the server run unprivileged just fine.

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