[PD-dev] DesireData's ./configure

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Nov 22 22:56:54 CET 2006


Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> >However I have believed that Pd *does* drop root priviledges after it
> >has changed its priority. Have I been fooled?
> 
> When I last checked, it stayed running as root on GNU/Linux.

Not here: Trying to write a textfile to "/etc/root" fails even with a
setuid /usr/bin/pd:

open: error: /etc/root: write failed

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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