[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1029] Hard failure if socket directories cannot be chowned to root is bad

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------- Additional Comments From eich at pdx.freedesktop.org  2004-08-23 09:25 -------
I've metioned the problems for non-SUID programs several times and outlined
possible solutions: Among them where:
1. Create the directories in question at install time with correct ownership/
   permissions. This would be suitalbe for most Linux distros - at least as
   long as the tmp filesystem is persistent.
2. If the fs is not persistent run a boot script that creates those directories
   after the filesystem has been created.
3. Use PAM or whatever other login mechanism that is capable of running scripts
   with root wonership during the login process to create those dirs.
It was suggested to describe possible solutions in the release notes.
I thought about a suid helper program, too, as it would do the same as an SUID
Xserver, but since the directory name is not known beforehand (X11, ICE, xfs use
different names already), we would have to be able to pass the directory name as
a command line argument, and I did not know how to do this in a fully
unexploitable way.
        
   
   
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