Bug#447354: Always runs as root

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Sat Oct 20 13:31:52 UTC 2007


Package: system-tools-backends
Version: 2.2.1-4
Severity: wishlist

        Hi,

 It would be nice to avoid running as root; I don't know why exactly STB
 runs as root, but it could perhaps lower its privileges after startup.
 For example reading system information is a task which can probably be
 done with less privileges.

   Bye,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages system-tools-backends depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.74-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.2-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnet-dbus-perl              0.33.5-1   Perl extension for the DBus messag

system-tools-backends recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Loïc Minier






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