cons.saver not suid root

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Wed Jun 8 14:54:36 UTC 2005


Hello Oswald,

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:49, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> yes, i'm aware of this. anyway, we have no portable (even across
> linuxes) way to create a vcsa user, so there is no other option than
> root.

I'd rather have the downstream packagers fixing the device permissions
and the accompanying user than suid-ing cons.saver root. That's just
ugly.

Leonard.

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mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research





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