On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:52:16PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> > > * Package name : ddccontrol > Version : 0.1.3 > Upstream Author : Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch> > * URL : http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net/ > * License : GPL > Description : a program to control monitor parameters > > DDCcontrol is a tool used to control monitor parameters, like brightness > and contrast, without using the OSD (On Screen Display) and the buttons > in front of the monitor. > I wanted to find out what people thought about how to handle one of the binaries in this package. One of them requires to be suid root. I know that some packages (e.g., cdrecord and man-db) ask the user whether or not to set suid. Is that the recommended approach? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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