Re: gpe-conf and privilege:RFA

On 14 Aug 2002 21:36:13 +0100
Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 21:04, Pierre Tardy wrote:
> > gpe-conf has things to do that will or will not require root privilges.
> > I've tried to give it suid, but gtk wisely forbids setuid runnings.
>
> What kind of things do you need to do?
stime(), ifconfig, wr acess to /etc/xcalibrate.conf, yes, actually, not much.

> The solution is either to create
> setuid helpers, or to run the appropriate bits of gpe-conf as root via
> gpe-su.
my gpe-su can only run terminal, but it is clear that it will not be complicated to upgrade it..
I've a look at your code (forkpty, etc.) is it the only way to do that?

Pierre

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