Moblin Will Run X Server As Logged-In User, Not Root

nerdyH writes "An architect of the Moblin Project has announced that Moblin 2.0 for netbooks and nettops is the first Linux distribution to run the X server as the logged-in user, rather than SUID'd to root. The fix to this decades-old security liability comes thanks to 'NRX' (No-root X) technology reportedly developed by Intel, Red Hat, and others in the X community, and the Moblin-sponsored 'Secure X' project. Besides making Linux netbooks a lot more snoop-proof, it seems like this could lead to an X-hosting renaissance of sorts, since you wouldn't be risking the whole system just to open up a specific user's account to remote X servers."

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[TheRaven64]

Yes, it's one of the things that happens when you elect an OpenBSD developer (Matthieu Herrb, who prototyped this two years ago) to the X.org steering committee. Thank $DEITY it's not just Linux developers working on X.org.