Re: [PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

• I removed the setuid feature because Pd isn't a proper setuid app, as it doesn't make any checks to prevent the user from abusing the access it gets. I don't see why anyone should use this feature. Login as root if you want to login as root.

Good idea: I would even suggest that this feature is dropped from Miller's Pd as well (on Linux at least, I don't know other OSses anymore) as there now are much better mechanisms to alleviate priority than running as root, especially the PAM-rtlimits approach. I don't run a setuid-root Pd binary for months now.

However I have believed that Pd *does* drop root priviledges after it has changed its priority. Have I been fooled?

Ciao