Allow running as root when not using setuid bit #6516
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For debugging (bypass DRM_AUTH), recovery (single user mode) and in some embedded scenarios (root shell instead of sudo/doas) it maybe desirable to run the compositor (and everything else within) as root. Currently, this is not supported to prevent foot-shooting when using
builtin
server in libseat.Similar to #5669 but setuid vs. root is detected automatically. This makes Sway behave like wlroots compositors that don't drop priveleges (e.g., river, phoc, gamescope). Alternatively,
drop_permissions()
can be removed in favor of seatd-launch(1).