Marco van de Voort wrote: >> 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.
I'm not so sure - refreshing the keyboard and video status after coming back from a spawned program or shell should be provided as a standard functionality within InitKeyboard and InitVideo calls, shouldn't it? Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
