On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:26:35PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Just been tinkering with jackstart and findout out what suid bit means. > > I think that the following would be a useful way to have audio software > > that requires "root" privileges set up:
> > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \ > > /usr/bin/jackstart > [...] > If jackstart always _requires_ SUID root you should not use > dpkg-statoverride but ship it SUID in the deb. If it requires SUID root, then the package is almost certainly buggy. Please use a privileged audio device user instead; I'm aware of no reason that audio software should need general root privileges. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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