GnuPG and SSH_AUTH_SOCK value

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Daniel,

On 28.06.19 10:23, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Fri 2019-06-28 10:04:44 +0200, Michael Kesper wrote:
>> On 23.06.19 12:21, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> I'm used to use 'startx' and ~/.xinitrc to bring up Xorg+KDE:
>>
>> This makes your setup depend on a suid binary.
> 
> Can you give more details?  I know that some older systems did rely on X
> or startx or something being setuid, but i think more modern systems
> don't require that.  On a debian testing (buster) system, for example, i
> don't believe that any of the binaries are suid.

The setuid binary is called xserver-xorg-legacy and can be installed in
buster (new installs don't get it afaik, but I'm not sure about upgrading):
https://packages.debian.org/de/buster/xserver-xorg-legacy
Matthias explicitly mentioned he used startx so I think this is
relevant.

Bye
Michael


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