Re: [Cooker] XcdRoast-0.98-alpha9 IS OUT!!!

2001-07-18 Thread Claudio

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 19:12, Axalon wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote:
> > Claudio wrote:
> > > CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 0.98 alpha 9
> > > 18.07.01:
> > >
> > > * RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9
> > >
> > > 17.07.01:
> > >
> > > * update the writeable flag in HD setup
> > > * final touches to non-root wrapper
> > >
> > > We could finally use this nice program as non-root!!! :)))
> > > C.
>
> C. you should already beable to run xcdroast as non root

I'm not. That's a problem in gtk, not in xcdroast as the author explains on 
www.xcdroast.org!
C.

-- 
Claudio Panichi
SysAdmin at Dept. of Physics
"Tor Vergata" University and INFN - Sec. "Roma II"
Remote System is:
LINUX Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker)




Re: [Cooker] XcdRoast-0.98-alpha9 IS OUT!!!

2001-07-18 Thread Axalon

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote:

> Claudio wrote:
> 
> > CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 0.98 alpha 9
> > 18.07.01:
> > 
> > * RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9
> > 
> > 17.07.01:
> > 
> > * update the writeable flag in HD setup
> > * final touches to non-root wrapper
> > 
> > We could finally use this nice program as non-root!!! :)))
> > C.

C. you should already beable to run xcdroast as non root

> 
> Wekk, I know it's safest for Mandrake to disallow any SUID binaries in 
> rpms, but when we are talking about a media player that does not let the 
> remote world connect to it, is there really much harm in it?

With this yes, you have to really trust who you give access to there is
nothing to stop them from reading things they shouldn't or worse.
 
> I also noticed that smbmount, and KDE's lisa, do not function properly 
> unless they are SUID.
> 
> I don't know a good way around this, because Mandrake does not ask you 
> questions when you install (and I have always loved this over Debian's 
> method), but it'd be nice to know which binaries system-wide needed SUID 
> to work properly when not root.

>=) Once identified most can be eliminated
 
> Maybe if someone maintained a list?

*points* Your idea, your job. Theres probably one out there already but a
quick grep(or 1k) would answer the question.

-- 
--Axalon





Re: [Cooker] XcdRoast-0.98-alpha9 IS OUT!!!

2001-07-18 Thread Mordechai Ovits

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 12:53, David Walluck wrote:
> Claudio wrote:
> > CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 0.98 alpha 9
> > 18.07.01:
> >
> > * RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9
> >
> > 17.07.01:
> >
> > * update the writeable flag in HD setup
> > * final touches to non-root wrapper
> >
> > We could finally use this nice program as non-root!!! :)))
> > C.
>
> Wekk, I know it's safest for Mandrake to disallow any SUID binaries in
> rpms, but when we are talking about a media player that does not let the
> remote world connect to it, is there really much harm in it?

Yes, there's harm in it.  Local root privilege escalation attacks are pretty 
bad.

mordy
-- 
Mordy Ovits
Network Engineer
Bloomberg L.P.




Re: [Cooker] XcdRoast-0.98-alpha9 IS OUT!!!

2001-07-18 Thread David Walluck

Claudio wrote:

> CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 0.98 alpha 9
> 18.07.01:
> 
> * RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9
> 
> 17.07.01:
> 
> * update the writeable flag in HD setup
> * final touches to non-root wrapper
> 
> We could finally use this nice program as non-root!!! :)))
> C.
> 
> 

Wekk, I know it's safest for Mandrake to disallow any SUID binaries in 
rpms, but when we are talking about a media player that does not let the 
remote world connect to it, is there really much harm in it?

I also noticed that smbmount, and KDE's lisa, do not function properly 
unless they are SUID.

I don't know a good way around this, because Mandrake does not ask you 
questions when you install (and I have always loved this over Debian's 
method), but it'd be nice to know which binaries system-wide needed SUID 
to work properly when not root.

Maybe if someone maintained a list?

-- 
Sincerely,

David Walluck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>





[Cooker] XcdRoast-0.98-alpha9 IS OUT!!!

2001-07-18 Thread Claudio


CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 0.98 alpha 9
18.07.01:

* RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9

17.07.01:

* update the writeable flag in HD setup
* final touches to non-root wrapper

We could finally use this nice program as non-root!!! :)))
C.

-- 
Claudio Panichi
SysAdmin at Dept. of Physics
"Tor Vergata" University and INFN - Sec."Roma II"
Remote System is: LINUX!