Bug#585087: gdm3 runs as root and no longer as user gdm

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Jun 9 07:05:05 UTC 2010


severity 585087 serious
thanks

Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 03:21 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer a
écrit :
> It seems that gdm3 no longer runs as the special user/group gdm
> which it did in the "gdm" package, and which is AFAIK still
> recommended in the gdm documentation.
> 
> Is there any reason or running it as root?

Of course not. I presume this bug was introduced in 2.30.2-3.
Thanks for noticing.

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