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Subject: Re: How to setuid X.org?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:50:21 +0100
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To: dian_cecht@zoho.com
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Hello,

<dian_cecht@zoho.com> skribis:

>      I have tried several times to get X.org (/bin/X, specifically)
> setuid for obvious reasons. However, I can't find any examples of usage
> and attempting to follow the infopages has led to a bunch of different
> errors and failures (and rather useless error messages). I currently
> don't have any useful logs of what I tried and the output (it was on a
> LiveUSB I'm using for testing purposes), but I'm not wanting to use
> %desktop-services (or other service packs, for that matter), which has
> already been suggested.

To complement what Marius wrote, note that you don=E2=80=99t have to use
=E2=80=98%desktop-services=E2=80=99 as-is to get X running.  You can remove=
 services you
don=E2=80=99t want from =E2=80=98%desktop-services=E2=80=99 as shown at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration=
-System.html#System-Services>
(search for =E2=80=9Cremove=E2=80=9D), or you can build your own service li=
st.

In the latter case, you=E2=80=99ll want at least =E2=80=98slim-service=E2=
=80=99 or
=E2=80=98sddm-service=E2=80=99 for the graphical login manager.  See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/X-Window.html> and
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/services/desktop.scm#n=
749>.

If you don=E2=80=99t want a graphical login manager, the solution would be =
to
install =E2=80=98xinit=E2=80=99 (which provides the =E2=80=98startx=E2=80=
=99 command) rather than make
Xorg setuid-root.  However, people reported in the past that there were
problems with =E2=80=98xinit=E2=80=99, though I forgot what it was.

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.