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| author | Kenny Levinsen <kl@kl.wtf> | 2021-09-12 12:04:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Kenny Levinsen <kl@kl.wtf> | 2021-09-12 12:06:05 +0200 |
| commit | 8c85c46d2db93fcbb7ff1e0bbeaeb3e4dd0e71a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 611a15e481c713b7cb55d8a5e953f38785a1f2fe /man/seatd-launch.1.scd | |
| parent | 483dbf76faf9f23117454aa8fc6d22abee3edc89 (diff) | |
man/seatd-launch: Make mssage about root clearer
Diffstat (limited to 'man/seatd-launch.1.scd')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/seatd-launch.1.scd | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/seatd-launch.1.scd b/man/seatd-launch.1.scd index b1fb685..d882ba5 100644 --- a/man/seatd-launch.1.scd +++ b/man/seatd-launch.1.scd @@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ appropriately. Once the specified command terminates, the seatd instance is also terminated. seatd requires root privileges to perform its tasks. This can be achieved -through SUID of seatd-launch, *sudo(8)*/*doas(1)*, or by running seatd-launch -as root. seatd-launch will drop privileges from the effective user to the real -user before running the specified command. If the real user is root, this is -simply a noop - only run directly as root if you intend for the specified -command to run as root as well. +through SUID of seatd-launch or by running seatd-launch as root. seatd-launch +will drop privileges from the effective user to the real user before running +the specified command. If the real user is root, this is simply a noop. You +should only run seatd-launch as root if you intend for the specified command to +run as root as well. seatd-launch serves a similar purpose to the libseat "builtin" backend, but is superior to it for two reasons: |