On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 22:04, Pierre Tardy wrote:
> On 14 Aug 2002 21:36:13 +0100
> Philip Blundell <pb@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.
Perhaps we should have a group which is allowed to run the setuid
helpers / write to certain configuration files?
(Adding a group now would be easier than fixing everything to use one
later.)
-- MorayReceived on Wed Aug 14 21:16:00 2002
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