Bug#456824: Prevent setuid/setguid process to run

[Emmanuel Fleury]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> None of these applications are setuid/setgid, and we would already know
> if Gtk+ was breaking the whole desktop this way.

Well, I warned you I was wrong. ;)

> Problems with these specific applications (and the gnome-mount warnings)
> are more likely to show a bug in hal. Could you downgrade hal-info to
> version 20071030-1, restart hal and see if it still happens ?

Magically the network-manager went back. But, still none of the
gnome-power-manager and gnome-volume-manager did show up.

Should I dig more in the hal side (I'm no expert in this area) ?

> As for your setuid issue, it could either come from a wrong check on the
> GTK+ side, or be completely unrelated. It would be nice to know whether
> the warnings still show up after fixing your hal issue.

Ok, so the title of the bug-issue is wrong.

Regards
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Emmanuel Fleury

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