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

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Fri Jul 13 18:32:37 CEST 2007


Aha, on the next boot it worked.  Thanks!

Miller

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 07:43:10AM +0200, 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. 
> 
> Ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
> 
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