kde 3.5.5 kdeinit setuid is always enabled?

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed Oct 25 23:25:03 BST 2006


Benjamin Reed wrote:
>I'm not sure why this wouldn't be happening everywhere, but the new
>setuid kdeinit stuff causes my ~/.ICEauthority file to be created
>owned by root, which subsequently causes authentication errors and kde
>fails to start:

start_kdeinit drops privileges before running... ugh, it doesn't on 
non-Linux. It shouldn't be installed setuid root on non-Linux systems, 
since there's no need for it.


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