On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:54:36PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:49, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > yes, i'm aware of this. anyway, we have no portable (even across > > linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than > > root. > > I'd rather have the downstream packagers fixing the device permissions > and the accompanying user than suid-ing cons.saver root. > and "punish" the upstream users, including ourselves? interesting.
> That's just ugly. > ugly is this paranoia wrt just making it suid root. how many LOC is it? i mean, if none of the five halfways qualified developers here is able to audit this thing and declare it secure, mc can pack it's bags anyway ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
