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- It looks to me like setting up Executor/Linux-SVGALIB as setuid root is a
- wide open security hole. All hard drive access is done as root. This
- includes things like writing /etc/passwd:). I don't know if there is any
- easy way around this, short of deciding to give a trusted group of users
- (who are allowed to use Executor) root access or alternatively leaving
- everything wide open to anyone who can get to the console.
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- The other interesting problem is that running Executor/Linux-SVGALIB ends up
- resetting the owners on a bunch of files, which means that you pretty much
- have to run Executor/Linux-X as root in order to save changes to the Browser
- and the like.
-
- --Toby Everett
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