On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:12:49PM +0100, Volker Ossenkopf wrote: > I need some advice to solve a recent bug report regarding a > frozen package.
You could make it suid to a user who has 2 additional groups. In that case the program should reset its uid after the devices are open (same would be true for suid root, but thats not a good idea). BTW: there is a idea for settig groups for console access to devices like cdrom, floppy, sound, mic, cam... so each user who logs into the sonsole will get added to that groups, then your program does not need to be sgid anyrthing, which is bad anyway since everybody even on networked terminal could start it. Greetings Bernd