[Bug 1882420] Re: Please make qemu-bridge-helper suid as suggested in the qemu docs

2021-12-09 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
What can be a solution for that? Without making it root suid (which is a good thing) applications like gnome-boxes fail in an ungraceful way that is very hard to understand. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 1882420] Re: Please make qemu-bridge-helper suid as suggested in the qemu docs

2020-06-08 Thread Paride Legovini
Hi Wren, Not setting the suid bit on qemu-bridge-helper is a deliberate choice due to the security concerns outlined in [1], see also the Ubuntu changelog entry for version 2.1+dfsg-3 of qemu. On setting up a default bridge: I don't think it's something the qemu package should do, as things like

[Bug 1882420] Re: Please make qemu-bridge-helper suid as suggested in the qemu docs

2020-06-08 Thread Paride Legovini
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #664141 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664141 ** Also affects: debian via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664141 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** No longer affects: debian -- You received this bug