Quote: Aitor wrote: "Being about five years on from what was your simple-netaid project, which has substantially evolved since then hoping that the outcome will be for the good of the project, the idea of reviving both your backend and gui in free pascal, but this time drawn upon libnetaid and snetaid (in replacement of the suid bit) is a challenge that might make this work more fun :)" [End of Quote]
Dear Aitor, There are no hard feelings from me, notwithstanding my project is now defunct. I would like to thank you for adopting it in your own way to modernise it so that it can be secure and enjoyed by everyone. Sincerily, thanks for all your time and dedication. Thanks to Devuan, I am using what was known as Debian without the burden of systemd. As you clearly indicate, the old version uses an SUID executable to get root privileges which is a security hole which Devuan did very well to close, even though it broke my latest version of simple-netaid-*. In my limited use case, I worked around the breakage by removing the GUI component and using only the backend as root. It works in my case, but other users may require more functionality, which thanks to people like you, they can have. Sincerily, THANKS for your time and effort. Regarding the idea of importing functionality from your libraries to let my latest version of simple-netaid-* connect without the requirement of an SUID tag, although it can be done, there is no need for Devuan, as users can already use your project. Finally, I would like to renew my appreciation and thanks for helping the Devuan Project with your precious time. Thanks goes also to all the rest of Developers and volunteers who help the project. Edward _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng