On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:33 AM, DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
> Popping the stack on this after a year...
>
> [snip]
>
> The issue I discovered with putting the fakers in a non-system directory
> is that you can no longer launch setuid root binaries in VGL-- and yes,
> I know, that's horribly insecure and no one should ever do it, but
> that's the only way you can run VirtualBox or VMWare in VirtualGL (for
> the purposes of running Windows 3D apps remotely.) Thus, for our
> purposes, I'm going to have to continue to package VirtualGL with the
> fakers in the system library directory on Linux. They aren't packaged
> there on Fedora, which I assume means that you simply aren't able to
> launch setuid root binaries in VirtualGL on that platform.
>
>
Ok. I will try to look at this again this weekend to see if I could make a
newer package in fedora for f19/f20+ that could use the new feature so that
users could launch setuid root binaries in fedora with the newest VirtualGL.
Thanks,
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