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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE and setuid programs
From:       Malte Starostik <malte.starostik () t-online ! de>
Date:       2002-07-01 14:50:18
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Am Monday 01 July 2002 14:14 schrieb Robin Atwood:
> I just got a mail from a user of my Kall program that it won't work as a
> normal user. Curiously, no one else seems to have noticed this and I always
> test and build as root (not a good idea, I suppose). The problem is
> creating the UUCP locking file "/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0" or whatever, the user
> needs root privilege. The solution would be to make the kall binary setuid
> root but KDE does not allow this. kppp can obviously do this, so what's the
> general strategy?
On my box, /var/lock/ belongs to group uucp and is group-writable. IMHO the 
better alternative than making the whole program suid.
- -- 
Malte Starostik
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