[PATCH] xfree86: Chown Xorg to 0, not root. (bug 28249)

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Fri Oct 15 22:35:06 PDT 2010


>>>>> "JA" == Jesse Adkins <jesserayadkins at gmail.com> writes:

JA> The superuser isn't always named root, but does always have uid 0.

Unless, of course, the system uses capabilities or capability bits and
leaves uid 0 unprivileged.

+1 on the concept, but the commit log should not be so absolute.

-JimC
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