Re: [Familiar] ANNOUNCE - gpe-isgui

From: Philip Blundell <pb.a.t.nexus.co.uk>
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 14:17:05 EDT

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 18:20, Erik Karlin wrote:
> The package will chown and chmod /usr/bin/bl to root.root setuid, so that if
> you don't log into GPE as root, the program will do something.

I think /usr/bin/bl is already setuid root in recent versions of
h3600-utils. It probably doesn't do any harm to set it again though.

> I don't fiddle with permissions to stop and start /etc/init.d/ipaq-sleep.
> Presumably, if you aren't root, they just fail.
> /etc/ipaq-sleep.conf is written on "Start" like the original isgui.py. If it
> cannot write the file, it will silently write $HOME/ipaq-sleep.conf. Another
> non-root issue.

Running ipaq-sleep as a non-root user should be OK. This is what the
session scripts do already. Having $HOME/.ipaq-sleep.conf for user
preferences seems like a great idea.

p.
Received on Wed Aug 14 18:17:13 2002

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