Le Ven 12 Août 2005 22:18, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > 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? to wich /dev/??? entry does the program speaks to ? if it's video (e.g.) then the normal user of a box is supposed to be in the video group, and setuid is not required. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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