On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:33:38PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you > > would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code. > > yeah, I guess you're right... too bad I love that screensaver :)
You should probably file a bug on the package, if it's not useable without introducing a security risk. Perhaps someone more familiar with the code could seperate out the part that needs special privileges into a seperate setuid program. Rob -- Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
