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Re: Possible root exploit in Linux povray
From: dag-erli () IFI UIO NO (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:40:46 +0200
Luke <luke () UTW COM> writes:
In the official (3.02) release of povray for linux, the s-povray binary must be installed suid root to function (complains about not being able to open /dev/console without it).
Can somebody please explain to me why a raytracing package needs root privs? Why does it even need access to the console at all? What's wrong with std{in,out,err}? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli () ifi uio no
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