[techtalk] GTK+ Prob - Mandrake 8

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:14:00PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Phil Savoie thought:
> Hi All,
> 
>  Have anyone ever seen this?  How does one create a "helper"
> program to get the x program cdroast to run?
> 
> GTK+WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
> This is not a supported use of GTK+.  You must create a helper
> program instead.  For further details see:  
>         http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
> 
> Refusing to intialize GTK+
> 
> I went there and looked and just saw a rather snotty page with no info
> on how to do this "helper"  thing.  Any ideas?
> 
> I am using Mandrake 8 and have added the rpm
> xcdroast-0.98alpha8-1.i586.mandrake72.rpm.  The above warning get
> displayed when ran as "root" user or any other ordinary user.

I suspect a wrapper script should do.  something like

#!/bin/bash

ssh -l root localhost '/usr/bin/xcdroast $*'

########## end ##############

save that as xcdroast.sh

Now all you need do is set up ssh on your box!

Alternatively, you could "chmod -s xcdroast" and then run it as root.

Finally, you could have a look at "sudo" which allows selected users 
to run selected programs as root.

Conor
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