On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:33:52PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: > 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? <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-March/004770.html> -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
