Bug#612918: Writing to /etc/ from a privileged UI

2011-05-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Paleino da...@debian.org writes: Hello everybody, I'm writing this mail to gather comments about a serious bug I received some time ago, for which I haven't yet had time to make a proper fix. The bug is #612918, against wicd, Uses /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf as state file. My

Bug#612918: Writing to /etc/ from a privileged UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
Hello everybody, I'm writing this mail to gather comments about a serious bug I received some time ago, for which I haven't yet had time to make a proper fix. The bug is #612918, against wicd, Uses /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf as state file. My opinion is that wireless networks with some kind

Bug#612918: Writing to /etc/ from a privileged UI

2011-05-09 Thread Marvin Renich
* David Paleino da...@debian.org [110509 04:19]: On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:12:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: /etc may include only _static_ configuration. What you have is variable state which belongs in /var. It's no different from a database, or dpkg's status data. Static IPs, DNS

Bug#612918: Writing to /etc/ from a privileged UI

2011-05-09 Thread David Paleino
On Mon, 9 May 2011 09:45:41 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: * David Paleino da...@debian.org [110509 04:19]: On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:12:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: /etc may include only _static_ configuration. What you have is variable state which belongs in /var. It's no different

Bug#612918: Writing to /etc/ from a privileged UI

2011-05-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:59:39PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 09:45:41 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: * David Paleino da...@debian.org [110509 04:19]: On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:12:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: /etc may include only _static_ configuration. What you