[PATCH V4] xserver: check for elevated privileges not uid=0

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Nov 2 21:16:43 PDT 2011


On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:47:16 +0700, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:

> Keith, is there anything else I should do to get this merged?

This kind of patch could really use some careful review by someone with
a good knowledge of Posix security, given the sensitive nature of any
kind of privilege checking code. I know there are many pitfalls in the
various APIs, I just don't know what they are.

It's useful to have things tested, but in this case, I don't feel like
it's sufficient to know whether there are corner cases which aren't
correctly handled.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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