> The suid helper is a short-lived process, which gets invoked
> after a new device has been plugged in, so it cannot differentiate
> between newly plugged in and already present devices. Besides that
> plugging in devices requires physical access, what is to stop a user
> from unplugging and re-p
Hi,
On 02/08/2012 03:55 PM, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
As mentioned in my original mail, the helper uses PolicyKit to ask
for
permission to redirect the device, it is PolicyKit which asks for the
root password, not the helper. In the blog post I linked to are
instructions to change the policy so
>
> As mentioned in my original mail, the helper uses PolicyKit to ask
> for
> permission to redirect the device, it is PolicyKit which asks for the
> root password, not the helper. In the blog post I linked to are
> instructions to change the policy so that local (so behind the
> keyboard of the
Hi,
On 02/08/2012 01:25 PM, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
Hi Hans,
Would it be possible to restrict this root helper to make it executable by any
users of a specific group without forcing them to give the root password?
I would think of something like
helper (suid root) -> check user group -> opens
Hi Hans,
Would it be possible to restrict this root helper to make it executable by any
users of a specific group without forcing them to give the root password?
I would think of something like
helper (suid root) -> check user group -> opens up the device give and filter
command to ensure that t
Hi,
On 02/07/2012 09:40 PM, Dominique Rodrigues wrote:
Hi,
I have compiled spice-gtk (version 0.9) to support usbredir (version 3.3
compiled and installed) on 2 type of OS : Mageia and Debian (wheezy).
I appears that usb redirection involves root in different ways for these OS.
For mageaia,
Le 08/02/2012 00:17, Gianluca Cecchi a écrit :
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Dominique Rodrigues wrote:
Here is for instance a message from a Debian (wheezy) Desktop when
I plug a USB key with spice-gtk :
Could not auto-redirect USB Mass Storage USB Mass Storage
[0ef5:2366]
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Dominique Rodrigues wrote:
>
> Here is for instance a message from a Debian (wheezy) Desktop when I plug
> a USB key with spice-gtk :
>
> Could not auto-redirect USB Mass Storage USB Mass Storage [0ef5:2366] at
> 3-2: Could not open usb device: Access denied (ins
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0100, Dominique Rodrigues wrote: Hi,
I
have compiled spice-gtk (version 0.9) to support usbredir (version 3.3
compiled and installed) on 2 type of OS : Mageia and Debian (wheezy).
I
appears that usb redirection involves root in different ways for these OS.
For
