On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:07:38AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:41:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > we we could just fix the DoS in gpm, no?
>
> Presumably so, though I'm not sure how the internals of gpm work... it
> is conceivable that any data written to that socket in the right format
> (or whatever) would be read as valid by the gpm process. Over my head!
> ;) But the principle of "minimum permissions necessary" would still be
> worth employing, assuming it could be done without a significant
> negative impact on the operation of the software....
there is another point, how necessary is it for gpm to run as root?
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