Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 May 2006 20:24:02 +0300 | From | Daniel Stone <> | Subject | Re: Kernel design: support for multiple local users |
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:12:09PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/26/06, Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> wrote: > >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:01:15PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> It is possible to set the current X server up to support this > >> configuration. Using the X server this way has some drawbacks. The X > >> server needs to be run as root. > > > >So far, so good. > > > >> The multiple users are sharing a > >> single X server image so things they do can impact the other users. > > > >No, they're not. > > So if I manage to fault my X server process, they other users a just fine?
It's entirely possible, inasmuch as it's entirely possible for a rogue X server to take out the entire machine.
When I said that each user's server was a separate process, I wasn't making that bit up. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |