Weston on RPi: running as non-root

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:32:43 +0200
Mika Boström <mika.bostrom at nomovok.com> wrote:

> On 01/03/13 20:46, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> >> Yep. Non-root user doesn't have permission to connect to Wayland socket.
> > 
> > Weston will create the socket with permissions so that only the user
> > weston runs as can access it.  This is deliberate and how the
> > authentication works.  As such, you can't run weston as root and then
> > connect to it as a different, regular user.  In fact, you shouldn't
> > run weston (including all of GL, shader compiler, protocol handling
> > etc) as root.
> 
> Aye, no doubt. Since I was entirely unfamiliar with raspberry, but
> wanted to use the native backend I went with existing instructions. On
> the intel systems I've happily used weston-launch, and actually prefer
> that approach. The RPi instructions explicitly state
> --disable-weston-launch for weston's configure.
> 
> Looked at weston-launch.c, changed configure option, made the necessary
> group edits and it works out of the box. Where' my brown paper bag?

That is strange. Why does Weston need any root access for you? Are you
perhaps running it via remote login, not local?

IIRC, I have never built weston-launch for RPi, I do *not* set weston
setuid root, and I simply run 'weston' as the 'pi' user, and it works.

I wonder what we have different.


Thanks,
pq