What is the policy/guidelines around having Set UID executables in Fedora? I maintain libsmbios. Libsmbios has to read the system DMI/SMBIOS table to do its job, and this table can currently only be obtained by mmap()-ing /dev/mem. I also need to read certain areas of RAM to get teh Dell system id, which is not in the DMI tables. I would like to make some of this available to non-root users, but the only way I can think of do do this involves SUID executables. Can anybody suggest a better way? My current problem is in the dellsysidplugin.py yum-plugin. It can only get the Dell system ID if yum is run by root. This means that some yum commands, such as 'yum list' will give different output when run as root/non-root. -- Michael Brown -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
