From kde-usability Sat Aug 09 17:16:52 2003 From: Henrique Pinto Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 17:16:52 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Sound System KCM (again!) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=106044956732738 Hi, On Saturday 09 August 2003 13:11, Simon Edwards wrote: > The problem is that you shouldn't have to tell the end user this. You > should tell the admin or packager this. It's an installation problem. What > I would do is make artswrapper gracefully fail (with a message) if it is > not suid root. It should not be possible for a packager to create a > package, test it and not notice that suid root is missing. Thank you for your comments. I agree with you here. Anyway, as artswrapper works without being suid root, I think some distributions, for security reasons, do not make it suid, Slackware being an example. The result of this is really bad sound on old machines, or when you have lots of programs running at the same time. I'll ask in kde-multimedia if it is possible/desirable to issue a message when artswrapper is not suid root. -- Henrique Pinto stampede@coltec.ufmg.br _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability