Re: [PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

2006-11-23 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote: However I have believed that Pd *does* drop root priviledges after it has changed its priority. Have I been fooled? Oh you're right, it actually works almost properly! My apologies! However, I still can make an external that can regain root privileg

Re: [PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

2006-11-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > >However I have believed that Pd *does* drop root priviledges after it > >has changed its priority. Have I been fooled? > > When I last checked, it stayed running a

Re: [PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

2006-11-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: * I removed the setuid feature because Pd isn't a proper setuid app, as it doesn't make any checks to prevent the user from abusing the access it gets. I don't see why

Re: [PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

2006-11-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > * I removed the setuid feature because Pd isn't a proper setuid app, as >it doesn't make any checks to prevent the user from abusing the access >it gets. I don't see why anyone should use this feature. Login as root >if

[PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

2006-11-22 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
I started DesireData's build scripts by modifying Miller's 0.39 scripts to make them more like devel_0_39's SCons files except that there are only made for building DesireData and not the standard devel_0_39 branch. Then I made a few extra changes: * Tcl doesn't need to be detected, because