On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:18:37PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> If this machine is in your home *and* your internet connection is via
> intermittent dial-up with dynamic IP adressing, I say no big deal.
> If you have persistant internet connection (via LAN, xDSL, Cable) your
> risk goes way
>
> I suggest you check out "sudo" this allows you to grant root
> privileges (or a subset there of) and will remember your
> authentication for a configurable period of time.
>
brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 0 Apr 14 17:13 /dev/fd0
I suggest simple adding your self to the "floppy" gr
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> a better way to go is adding yourself to group floppy, then you can
> read and write /dev/fd0. this is less of a risk then making random
> binaries suid.
>
> sudo as someone else mentioned is also probably safer.
>
> just don't add yourself to grou
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:00:55PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> How do you guys feel about SUID root? For example, I'm here using
> supermount, finding it mildly annoying that I have to login as root to
> format a floppy. Is it against the "Debian way" to SUID root on supermount
> and m
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:00:55PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
:
: How do you guys feel about SUID root? For example, I'm here using
:supermount, finding it mildly annoying that I have to login as root to
:format a floppy. Is it against the "Debian way" to SUID root on supermount
:and mform
>
> Sorry to bug the list with yet another programming problem but ...
>
> What permissions on the file do I need to change to allow an ordinary user
> to run a setuid-root programme ? The programme below compiles and runs if
> I compile & run as root but does not work if run by a user regardles
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