> Op Wed, 18 Jul 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt: > > Under the assumption a setuid root program is the only possible option: > > > > The safest - and in my opinion only correct - way is to write a small > > setuid > > root program which sets the proper TTY stuff, and then executes the IDE as > > the normal user. > > > > The program can easily be audited, as it'll be maybe 50 lines of code... > > If the user switches VT, the keyboard needs to be unpatched. So this > approach won't fully work. However, a solution that can work is to make > the keyboard unit execute a setuid root helper to which it communicates > through a pipe.
This would introduce quite some linux specific code on a lot of already complicated points to the IDE. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
