Hi Jakub,
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:40, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should be setuid to whatever
> user owns /dev/vcsa* devices. Ideally there is a vcsa user that
> just owns these devices and cons.saver.
Could you maybe go into the details if and if how a setu
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:06:03PM +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> BTW: in case Linux now I don' see cons.saver usage.
>
> $ strace -o out mc; grep cons.saver out
>
> with few times ctrl-o during strace show nothing (?).
>
> Q: is in case Linux cons.saver is still neccessary ?
Yes. In case mc's
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
moin,
for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
making the whole thing sort of pointless.
the attached patch makes it useful for me.
comments?
cons.saver shou
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:05PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:23, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > suppose i prefer configure && make && stow ...
>
> Patch is your friend. Or just chown and chmod afterwards.
>
you needn't to educate _me_. now that i identified th
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:42:07PM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:49:11PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > we have no portable (even across
> > linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than
> > root.
>
> How about not creating a user or group
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:49:11PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> we have no portable (even across
> linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than
> root.
How about not creating a user or group, but observing the installed system?
IMHO if all the vcsa devices are owned
Hi Oswald,
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:23, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> suppose i prefer configure && make && stow ...
Patch is your friend. Or just chown and chmod afterwards.
> do you really expect every new user to do a bughunt as the first thing?
I'd expect most new users to use a distro that s
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:23:42PM +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>
> > --- Makefile.am.orig2005-06-08 16:30:58.0 +0200
> > +++ Makefile.am 2005-06-08 16:29:13.0 +0200
> > @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@
> > if US
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:13:00PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:03, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > and "punish" the upstream users, including ourselves? interesting.
>
> This issue can be easily fixed with package builds.
>
suppose i prefer configure && make && st
Hi Oswald,
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:03, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> and "punish" the upstream users, including ourselves? interesting.
This issue can be easily fixed with package builds. I'd assume people
that don't use a form packaging on their systems should be knowledgeable
enough to read the
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 ha
Hello Oswald,
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 acc
Hi Jakub, Oswald,
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:40, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
> > making the whole thing sort of pointless.
> cons.saver should not be setuid root, it
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
> > making the whole thing sort of pointless.
> > the attached patch makes it useful for me.
>
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:35:16PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> moin,
>
> for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
> making the whole thing sort of pointless.
> the attached patch makes it useful for me.
> comments?
cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should b
moin,
for some time now, cons.saver is not installed suid root any more,
making the whole thing sort of pointless.
the attached patch makes it useful for me.
comments?
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