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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Sound System KCM (again!)
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-28 17:57:53
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On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:34, William Coleman wrote:
> looking in the sources in the makefiles there is a commented section
> which sets artswrapper to  mode 755, for suid I was wondering if anyone
> in the development team would re-enable the rule. even if you arrange to
> have artswrapper in a seporate sub-package  due to the 'possible'
> security risks. perhaps serporating suid programs fom the main package
> would be useful in security restrictive envionments. artswrapper is
> designed to be suid, if you are running as root then arts server doesn't
> need the wrapper.

this is probably something best brought up with the person(s) who made that 
change (try cvs annotate and cvs log), and one of the more general or 
security related lists =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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