From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D6B4138247 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5F3BE0D8D; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCA3E0CEC for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E79F922B68 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:31:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:31:05 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed Message-ID: <20140119213105.5aea842f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201401182345.26467.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <1389784897.14951.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <20140117111106.4da8177e@digimed.co.uk> <20140117132736.3fdecb80@digimed.co.uk> <201401182345.26467.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3-33-ge4867e (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/kkiRNWiUtt3p_scdekep7lt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ffd2800f-2628-4b33-8343-103f5f1af090 X-Archives-Hash: 5639e11447f671297ac66cfedb314ba5 --Sig_/kkiRNWiUtt3p_scdekep7lt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:45:00 +0000, Mick wrote: > This thread confused me. I have this in my system and I have not > changed the permissions from when it was installed: >=20 > ls -la /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper > -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 322984 Jun 22 > 2013 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon- launch-helper >=20 > Is the suid bit dangerous and if so what is the alternative? Should > there be a bug filed on it? I think what Samuli was trying to say was that the suid bit is dangerous if you give global execute permissions to the file, because then anyone can run it as root. The default of rwx--x--- if safe because only root or a member of the messagebus group can execute it. My problem was that the messagebus user was not a member of the messagebus group thanks to a mismatch of IDs in /etc/{passwd,group} - I don't know whether this is also the cause of the error messages on Helmut's system. --=20 Neil Bothwick WinErr 042: Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be closed and the virus will be activated again. --Sig_/kkiRNWiUtt3p_scdekep7lt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlLcRCMACgkQum4al0N1GQO3GgCffP0CFnAHULClbBZvMucXIUce EDQAmwagN1sTBimUx5SMKf9Htb0sJ0JW =oJoF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/kkiRNWiUtt3p_scdekep7lt--