RFC: what to do with ums when the X server is not suid root ?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Jan 20 16:10:11 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:58:23PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:18:22PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >  We can probably kill -cirrus.
> 
> qemu?  (I know that people "should" be using QXL, but cirrus is still
> the default in plain qemu, and IMHO simpler and more secure.)

We have KMS support for the qemu cirrus, so you can just use 
-modesetting.

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