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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdesu in KRASH
From:       Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date:       1999-10-01 7:28:09
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David Faure wrote:

> About kdesu : I can't run "make install" in kdebase as a normal user
> anymore...
> 
> /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /opt/kde2/bin
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent  --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -m 2755 -g 65534 \
>                 kdesud /opt/kde2/bin/kdesud
> /usr/bin/install: /opt/kde2/bin/kdesud: Operation not permitted
> make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1    

kdesud needs to be setgid nogroup because of security concerns. The
password are kept in here so this way, nobody can attach a debugger or
do something similar.

Is this a big problem?

Greetings,
-- 
    Geert Jansen                       email: <g.t.jansen at stud.tue.nl>
    Phylosopher, Physicist                        PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE


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