Bug#748203: xorg-server: Please enable logind support

[Laurent Bigonville]

Source: xorg-server
Version: 2:1.15.99.902-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I guess we should consider enabling logind support in X for the next
jessie release.

This would allow us to run X without root permissions if the card is
supported by KMS. For legacy card we should also ship the
"suid-wrapper"[1] that is supposed to detect cards whether the card is
supported and act accordingly (aka not drop the root privileges).

The suid-wrapper might also deprecate the Xwrapper which is Debian
specific. It support the same option as Xwrapper (specifying which user
is allowed to run a X server) and it also contains a "needs_root_rights"
parameter in case somebody doesn't want to use logind or if the
auto-detections is not working properly.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

[1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-March/040874.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash