Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:27:32PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > Look at lincity. If I remember right it generates three packages:
> > >
> > > main, svga and X11.
> > >
> > > The svga and x11 package contain the binarie for svga and x11
> > > respectivly, while main contains all comon files. The lincity-svga
> > > is probaly setuid while the lincity-x11 is not.
> >
> > That's what I've done from the get-go.
> >
> > > If root doesn´t want anyone to play lxdoom-svga he won´t install it or
> > > copy it somewhere else or change its permissions. The normal setup
> > > should allow every user to play it.
> >
> > Instead of this, though, which could be a problem, I included a script, based
> > on one in gnuplot, which will configure the suid bit-ness of lsdoom, the svgalib
> > executable.
>
> Hmm, I might file a bug against that. Interactive installation realy
> sucks and it will bann lsdoom from my demo-fs packages as a possible
> game to include. Patching it back to noninteractive is work. :(
>
> If you have two binaries, make the svga setuid by default. Noone will
> install it to not let the users use it.
>
> In the case of gnuplot, there is only one binary, so you don´t have
> the choise at the package level, so it must ask.
>
> May the Source be with you.
> Goswin
>
>
If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't debconf allow this to be as interactive as
the maintainer likes?
Frank aka Myth
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