On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:39:07AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm writing this mail to gather comments about a serious bug I received some > time ago, for which I haven't yet had time to make a proper fix. The bug is > #612918, against wicd, "Uses /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf as state file". > > My opinion is that wireless networks with some kind of configuration provided > (say, a key, or a DNS server, or some static IP, [..]), should be saved there > (so the bug really is: «don't uselessly save all the networks you encounter» > -- and I already have a fix for that). > > The reporter's opinion is that no GUI should ever write to /etc/. > > However, WICD clients are run from privileged users, i.e. those in the `netdev' > group, and are added there by root. So I think that's perfectly fine. Aside from privileges wicd needs or has to write in /etc, how does it handle read-only / (including /etc)? Does it fall back to /var? Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <jhr@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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