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[Laércio de Sousa <lbsousajr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hans et al.,

I'm observing GDM behaviour with non-root Xorg. I see that GDM by default
keeps the greeter session alive, switching to another VT in order to start
a new user session. Shouldn't it break for non-seat0 seats, since they
can't handle multiple sessions due to lack of VT support?

I think it would better for LightDM to have the default (or optional)
behaviour of quitting greeter session and reusing its VT for the next user
session. It implies terminating greeter's Xorg before launching user's one.

Em qua, 20 de jan de 2016 às 16:15, Bug Watch Updater <
1292324@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> ** Changed in: lightdm (Debian)
>        Status: Unknown => Confirmed
>
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> Title:
>   Support non-root X
>
> Status in Light Display Manager:
>   Triaged
> Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
> Status in lightdm package in Debian:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Support running X as an unprivileged user.
>
>   Currently X servers are run as root means a large complex process has
>   access to services it might not need (i.e. potential security and
>   stability problems). It would be nice to run each X server as either
>   an unprivileged user or in the session they are being used in.
>
>   Logind provides a system for sharing access to the display and input
>   devices so this can be done - this seems like the most likely
>   implementation of non-root X.
>
>   For more information see Hans de Goede request:
>   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2014-March/000539.html
>
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Title:
  Support non-root X

Status in Light Display Manager:
  Triaged
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in lightdm package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Support running X as an unprivileged user.

  Currently X servers are run as root means a large complex process has
  access to services it might not need (i.e. potential security and
  stability problems). It would be nice to run each X server as either
  an unprivileged user or in the session they are being used in.

  Logind provides a system for sharing access to the display and input
  devices so this can be done - this seems like the most likely
  implementation of non-root X.

  For more information see Hans de Goede request:
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2014-March/000539.html

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1292324/+subscriptions