On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 23:40 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
>
> On 04/05/2018 09:41 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
> > >
> > > It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular'
> > > user to
> > > run in superuser mode, unless the regula
On 04/05/2018 09:41 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
>>
>> It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular' user to
>> run in superuser mode, unless the regular user enters the root
>> password.
>
> It can happen if the program's bina
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
>
> It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular' user to
> run in superuser mode, unless the regular user enters the root
> password.
It can happen if the program's binary is owned by the root user and is
mode u+s (set-userid
On 04/03/2018 01:47 PM, Leslie Katz wrote:
> Apologies. I couldn't figure out how to reply directly to my own earlier
> message, so I'm doing so by a fresh post with the same title as my
> original post, in case anyone should be helped by my reply.
>
> The GIMP says in its title bar that it's ru
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Leslie Katz wrote:
> Apologies. I couldn't figure out how to reply directly to my own earlier
> message, so I'm doing so by a fresh post with the same title as my original
> post, in case anyone should be helped by my reply.
>
> The GIMP says in its title b
