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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package

  1. Bug #155937
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 155937

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sibidiba (sibidiba) wrote : Re: SHMConfig should be enabled by default, and gsynaptics should be installed by default on laptops

So here it comes:

I made a patch, which enables SHMConfig by default.

Although this comes with a drawback: this option works in the way of allocating a shared memory for the configuration options. But this memory must have permissions set to 777, otherwise the logged in (usually non-root) user won't be able to change it's settings. So this way any local user logged in to X is able to change the settings.
I can't consider this as a vulnerability.

Please apply my patch, if possible.