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

[Josselin Mouette]

severity 585087 normal
thanks

Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 09:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> 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.

Bleh. I looked at the wrong machine for reconfirmation.

The GDM daemon itself runs as root of course, but everything that is
unsafe (especially the graphical stuff) is run under user Debian-gdm.
All the information is communicated between the daemon and the slave
session through D-Bus.

Cheers,
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