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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : sysregd: Install as suid
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To: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>, xenomai@xenomai.org

On 2015-01-12 11:34, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> 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.

OK.

Jan

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