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

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sat Jul 14 00:01:12 CEST 2007


On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> This is only possible if you are running Pd as root, which is general
>> is not a good idea.  If Pd is running as a different user, then you
>> wouldn't be able to gain root access.
>
> Matju can comment better, but AFAIR in my tests his external also
> worked with a setuid root Pd started as a normal user.

My mail was about specifically setuid root Pd started as a normal 
user, and then re-gaining root priviledges after the pd startup 
procedure abandons them.

I don't know how anyone can understand anything else from that mail.

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