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title="NEW - XWayland security settings prohibits applications running as root from connecting by default"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91071">91071</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>XWayland security settings prohibits applications running as root from connecting by default
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Wayland
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>XWayland
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>wayland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>nerdopolis1@verizon.net
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>xorg-team@lists.x.org
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<pre>Hi.
It seems the security changes in XWayland prevents applications running as root
from connecting. The users will have to run xhost +LOCAL: in order to run a
graphical application as root
There are a few graphical applications that run as root (Some applications I
can think of is ubiquity (The Ubuntu installer) and synaptic),
These applications, even ones that are built against a toolkit that supports
Wayland, connect to X because most *sudo applications strip out
$WAYLAND_DISPLAY by default (along with all other variables).
Is there a way to whitelist root by default, if it makes sense to do so? It
makes sense to keep the other users out though...
Most Wayland servers I think currently allow applications running as root to
connect. (including Weston)</pre>
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