Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : sysregd: Install as suid

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2015-01-12 13:42, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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.

Is there a way to maintain that sudo test code only in one place? I'm
currently not finding an obvious one.

Jan

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