Fileshareset in kdelibs 3.3.1 has suid.

Paweł Gołaszewski blues at pld-linux.org
Sat Oct 16 14:25:32 CEST 2004


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Piotr Szymanski wrote:
> Z kdelibs:
>  *************************************************************
>  *                                                           *
>  * NOTE:                                                     *
>  * If You want the directories sharing from the context menu *
>  * functionality, do as following:                           *
>  * 1) Install sperl package,                                 *
>  * 2) Set SUID root bit for fileshareset script.             *
>  *                                                           *
>  * WARNING:                                                  *
>  * 1) That allows users to write to /etc/samba/smb.conf,     *
>  * 2) After all - using sperl is not safe.                   *
>  *                                                           *
>  *************************************************************
> I have chosen to set the suid root for fileshareset (and remove stupid
> banner)  anyone against? A better idea would be to perhaps create a
> group that has writable access to /etc/samba/smb.conf and among others
> to samba resources. Depends on your choice.

Make group. It allows to select who can change settings... and works 
out-of-the-pudełko ;)

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