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On Saturday 17 May 2003 02:18, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 00:43, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> > Hello everyone, |
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> > I'm adding a new local use flag for kde-base/arts: artswrappersuid. It |
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> > sets artswrapper suid root, which allows artsd (kde's sound server) to |
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> > run with realtime priority and avoid skips and clicks, but it's a |
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> > security hazard, so it's off by default. |
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> Dan, isn't this something that the admin should set for himself ? |
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> I mean, just adding a USE flag for that, even when local do sound |
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> a bit excessive .... |
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Well, isn't whoever emerges KDE (and thus has root perms) the admin of the |
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box? So now he can do USE=artswrappersuid instead of running chmod +s |
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manually. The important difference is that you can set the use flag once in |
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make.conf and forget about it. In my experience, after emerging a new kde I |
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usually forget to do the chmod manually, start the new kde, get a warning |
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about no realtime permissions, chmod and restart. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |