On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
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.
Yes, sounds like its time to ditch this.
However I have believed that Pd *does* drop root priviledges after it has changed its priority. Have I been fooled?
When I last checked, it stayed running as root on GNU/Linux.
.hc
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