Re: Problem with libart backend

[Charles Philip Chan]

Circa Sun. Oct. 27, 2002 at 01:53:50 +0200, a lone cry was heard from 
Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> in the wasteland called the
Internet:

> That's a bit strange. Is the X server running as some third user (ie.
> not you and not root)? 

The X server is running as root. This is the command for starting X
taken from ps:

/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-UpaVYa

> I could add a defaults key that switches it to  0777, but that allows
> any local user to attach to the shared memory and see/modify the
> contents of your windows.

This could be a major security risk.

The strange thing is that my other programs have no problems using shm.

Charles

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