Is it permissable to create binaries, linked against svgalib,
which are setuid/setgid root.root?
The security paranoid system administrator in me says this is
a big no-no, particularly when what I'm talking about is a game
(lxdoom). But then, when you install lxdoom-svga, it's unusable
except by r
Joe, perhaps suggest in the postinst script that it *can* be setuid/setgid
ahd offer to set it there? (gnuplot does this, if one is looking for a
precedent to follow..)
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:38:38PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> Is it permissable to create binaries, linked against svgalib,
> which
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:45:13PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Joe, perhaps suggest in the postinst script that it *can* be setuid/setgid
> ahd offer to set it there? (gnuplot does this, if one is looking for a
> precedent to follow..)
Note thay once an svgalib application initializes svgalib, a
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