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Re: [suse-security] KDE wrong file permissions (was: SUSE Security Announcement: sane (SuSE-SA:2003:046))
- From: Thomas Biege <thomas@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:01:52 +0100 (CET)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311190854280.10568-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Bastian Friedrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2003 21:52, Thomas Biege wrote:
> > By running SuSEconfig the permission script is run after the kde
> > script, so everything is fine.
>
> So you call it "fine" to leave a race condition?
Please don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
You are clever enough to not run KDE on a system with
muliple (untrusted) users, or even use KDE to work as root.
You are free to modify your system for your needs.
Bye,
Thomas
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> On Tuesday 18 November 2003 21:52, Thomas Biege wrote:
> > By running SuSEconfig the permission script is run after the kde
> > script, so everything is fine.
>
> So you call it "fine" to leave a race condition?
Please don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
You are clever enough to not run KDE on a system with
muliple (untrusted) users, or even use KDE to work as root.
You are free to modify your system for your needs.
Bye,
Thomas
--
Thomas Biege <thomas@xxxxxxx>, SUSE LINUX AG, Security Support & Auditing
"lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/contact/thomas.asc | pgp -fka"
Key fingerprint = 51 AD B9 C7 34 FC F2 54 01 4A 1C D4 66 64 09 83
--
... stay with me, save and ignorant, go back to sleep...
- Maynard James Keenan
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