On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 13:43, Robert Heller wrote:
> IF> suid-bit? -> http://www.linuxgeek.net/index.pl/suid
> Better: chown/chmod of /dev/lp?
>
> The suid-bit is seriously *dangerious*. All it takes is a silly
> buffer-overrun bug and a seriously clever cracker and your system is
> trashed.
He's not using /dev/lp, he's using direct IO to the hardware port. You
have to be root for that.
You could do this as a user using libieee1284, though, which was
mentioned in a previous post. It is much safer and would solve the
problems you just pointed out. It would also make the program portable
to other operating systems, promote world peace, etc.
Simon
-- Simon Krix <kinsei@netspeed.com.au> Dynjab Technologies R&D
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