I have a situation where I am using GTK as a frontend for a databse we have. Everything is fine except for the fact that I want to keep the database password secure. I do not want to store it in the program for obvious reasons so I thought I would save it in an external file and have the program read it on startup. The only decent way that I know of to do this have a special user which can read the file and have the program setuid to run as that user. However, gtk doesn't like being run setuid. I looked at the setuid page because it says:
"You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html"; However, the only mention on this page of a helper program would require me to practically rewrite my entire application which is unacceptable. The only information my application receives is from the database and the password file. I don't like setuid applications as much as the next person, but I need to be able to secure the password file while being able to use and write this application in a feasible manner. If anyone else has a suggestion for solving my problem, please let me know (as long as it's not rediculous like the solution on the suid page. Otherwise, is there a way to work around this warning? Jeff Shipman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer Phone: (505) 835-5748 NMIMT Computer Center http://www.nmt.edu/~jeff _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
