On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:14:00PM -0400, Phil Savoie wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Have anyone ever seen this? How does one create a "helper"
> program to get the x program cdroast to run?
>
> GTK+WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
> This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
> program instead. For further details see:
> http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
>
> Refusing to intialize GTK+
>
> I went there and looked and just saw a rather snotty page with no info
> on how to do this "helper" thing. Any ideas?
>
> I am using Mandrake 8 and have added the rpm
> xcdroast-0.98alpha8-1.i586.mandrake72.rpm. The above warning get
> displayed when ran as "root" user or any other ordinary user.
don't know much about Mandrake, but the following note from
http://www.xcdroast.org/ may apply to your problem:
<quote from 11 May 2001's news>
Please note: The non-root mode of X-CD-Roast does not work with GTK+
1.2.9 (or newer) any longer! If you installed that version of GTK you
have to remove the sgid-bit on xcdrgtk (chmod -s /usr/bin/xcdrgtk) and
run as root only. The whole subprocessing of X-CD-Roast must be newly
written to make it working again.
</quote>
I assume you don't want to write your own 'helper' program -- waiting
for the author to fix it is certainly easier ;)
Just in case you are interested: the idea behind the helper program
is to split off the code that needs to run suid-root from the main
GTK+ application to reduce security problems (GTK+ contains many lines
of code, so the probability of a yet unknown security problem in that
code is much higher than that of a tiny specific-purpose suid backend).
The helper program would have to communicate with the main app, e.g.
via unix domain sockets.
HTH,
- Almut
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