[Kstars-devel] FLI CCD indi control panel

[Jasem Mutlaq]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Harris" <kstars at 30doradus.org>
To: "KStars Development Mailing List" <kstars-devel at kde.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Kstars-devel] FLI CCD indi control panel


> On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:17 pm, Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
>> Yes that would be very useful indeed. I just need to update the CVS one
>> more time and you can go ahead and test it. As far as I can tell, the
>> driver must run as root, or have setuid. So you need to change the
>> ownership of the file to either root, or setuid. Try to run it first
>> normally, if it doesn't connect, then run it as root.
>>
> Speaking of this, I noticed that the fliccd SUID bit was removed from
> indi/Makefile.am, due to security concerns.  Is this going to be a big
> problem, or can the program be made to run w/o root priveleges?

Well, this is what we're going to find out soon if Gaetano tests the driver. 
I remember that the driver only worked with root privileges before.

cheers,
Jasem