From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
To: xenomai@xenomai.org, xenomai-git@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : sysregd: Install as suid
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:34:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B3A339.7040501@xenomai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Y9Fya-0004Me-Ao@sd-51317.xenomai.org>
On 01/08/2015 05:30 PM, git repository hosting wrote:
> Module: xenomai-jki
> Branch: for-forge
> Commit: 7d56f2b19f987069ef0025f9ce5f8cc52781f340
> URL: http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-jki.git;a=commit;h=7d56f2b19f987069ef0025f9ce5f8cc52781f340
>
> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> Date: Thu Jan 8 14:30:52 2015 +0100
>
> sysregd: Install as suid
>
> sysregd has to run with root privileges in order to be able to clean up
> the mounts of unprivileged users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>
This one assumes root id on "make install", which is not a prerequisite
for installing a Mercury setup. This leads to sysregd losing root
privileges on execution, which contradicts the purpose.
We need sudo detection and use for this, just like we do in the top
level Makefile for creating /dev entries.
--
Philippe.
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[not found] <E1Y9Fya-0004Me-Ao@sd-51317.xenomai.org>
2015-01-12 10:34 ` Philippe Gerum [this message]
2015-01-12 12:42 ` [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : sysregd: Install as suid Jan Kiszka
2015-01-12 14:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2015-01-12 14:11 ` Jan Kiszka
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