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I do not think putting sonar setuid in the default installation is a good idea, this decision should rather be left to the user. In fact, the user will have to customize some settings if he wants to ping real hosts, so he can also setuid the screensaver. However, it would be nice to document that in a README.Debian, as the right way to do it is a dpkg-statoverride, that may be unfamiliar to most users. Here is a sample, to be put in the debian/directory of the source package. Regards, -- Tanguy Ortolo -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xscreensaver-gl depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.7.1-4 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.26.0-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.7.1-4 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l xscreensaver-gl recommends no packages. Versions of packages xscreensaver-gl suggests: ii xscreensaver 5.11-1+b1 Automatic screensaver for X -- no debconf information
The Sonar screensaver can ping hosts to plots their distance (response time) from you. However, to do so it has to be installed setuid root, because root privileges are required to make ping packets (/bin/ping is setuid, if you notice). If you want to enable that feature, run the following command as root: # dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 4755 /usr/lib/xscreensaver/sonar
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