[Bug 238366] Review Request: autodownloader - GUI-tool to automate the download of certain files

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Summary: Review Request: autodownloader - GUI-tool to automate the download of certain files


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238366


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------- Additional Comments From cweyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  2007-04-30 12:52 EST -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Interesting point, but autodownloader is not suid anything, and thus cannnot
> write to such a global log file. It was designed to run as a normal user and
> download files to dirs under the users $HOME. Yes this has a few downsides, but
> from a security POV, this really is the best solution IMHO.
> 
> We might need to take another look at this (adding a suid helper written in C)
> which can install files under /usr if autodownloader becomes popular and is used
> to download big(ger) files.

Note that the "oddjob" package can help with this, without needing to set things
suid or some other mechanism...  It provides a simple, modular dbus-enabled
mechanism for non-privlidged processes to invoke predefined privlidged
operations.  I'd definitely take a look at this first.



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