[PD] Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc4 released on ubuntu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 1:43 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
>
>> Pd does a "seteuid(setuid())" to un-get root priveliges if run as
>> setuid, after its priority gets promoted, so that it runs as the
>> user who started it.  But there are apparently loopholes, as Mathieu
>> has found.
>>
>> I'm trying to repeat Frank's trick with /etc/security/limits.conf, so
>> far without success, but if that works it would be much preferable
>> to making Pd setuid root.
>
> Here it works for several months at least:
>
> (~)-$ ls -l /usr/bin/pd
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 809768 May 31 19:05 /usr/bin/pd
> (~)-$ /usr/bin/pd -rt
> priority 8 scheduling enabled.
> priority 6 scheduling enabled.
>
> Debian with libpam-modules 0.79-4.

I wonder how to set up something like this in a package.  Too bad  
there isn't something like /etc/security.d/, where packages can  
install things.  Anyone have any ideas along that line?  I guess one  
answer is to use Ubuntu Studio... ;)

.hc

>
> Ciao
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