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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: IPC beetween deamon application run as root and KDE dcop client
From:       Christian Hubinger <e9806056 () student ! tuwien ! ac ! at>
Date:       2005-04-21 19:56:44
Message-ID: 4268057C.4010109 () student ! tuwien ! ac ! at
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Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
| On Thursday 21 April 2005 05:36 pm, Christian Hubinger wrote:
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|>Hi!
|>
|>I'm trieing to write a deamon for KMyFirewall that monitors the the
|>iptables rules setup in the kernel (want to implement a pannel applet).
|>In order to query the rules i ned to run my deamon as root (so far quite
|>clear).
|>
|>My first attempt was to write a dcop client that is set suid in order to
|>be able to query the kernel even when the user is not logged in as root.
|>The proble that occoured is that the KDE libs do not allow me to set the
|>executable suid.
|>
|>So now i'm thinking about writing a small c daemon which can communicat
|>with my non root (dcop enabled) app via a message queue/or socket.
|>As far as i can tell (i have hardly any experience in IPC programming)
|>this should work, or am i wrong here (please let me know if thats the
|>case).
|>
|>My question now is if there is any standard (KDE) way to do such a
|>thing. If so please let me know where to find an example for this, if
|>not - well i'll dig for some time into Linux IPC stuuf.
|>
|>thanks in advance for your help & greetings,
|>chris
|
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| Why not look into DBUS for this, as it's been designed to be used in this
| manner?

I'll have a look at it, i don't know anythiong about it yet.

well thanks for the answer

greetings,
chris
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