[PD] /etc/security/limits.conf WAS Re: Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc4 released on ubuntu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Can anyone make a wiki page about this on http://puredata.org/docs ?   
It would be quite handy to have.

Also, I'd love to hear suggestions how to make this part of the Pd- 
extended package.  I think it makes a lot of sense to have this a  
debconf question.  I suppose setuid could be a debconf question as well.

.hc

On Jul 13, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> 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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