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It is the same issue with all sandboxing solutions. If your program does not work without giving it excessive permissions, it does not work. If we want to move
by uecker 4mo ago
It is the same issue with all sandboxing solutions. If your program does not work without giving it excessive permissions, it does not work. If we want to move to a version with minimal privileges, X would still seem like a good platform to work on this. But one would have to work on it, not decide that everything needs to be rewritten all the time.
- orangeboats 4mo ago> If we want to move to a version with minimal privileges Then you would have to cut everything provided by the X protocol into many, smaller, controllable pieces. Because if the permission control is just a switch that says "ability to communicate with the X server", then the whole exercise is rather moot, isn't it. And when you cut the protocol into smaller pieces...
- uecker 4mo agoNo, there is already a secure mode which in the past worked fine but was bit too restrictive for modern clients, and there already exist hooks for fine grained access control.