[MPlayer-users] Re: gmplayer and SUID

[Juan C. Gallardo]

Thanks for the help.
Since I'm not a excelent programer I decided to go with the sudo solution,
which using some alias allows me to run my program and use the mozilla plug
in in a good way without seting SUID.

Thanks people

Juan C. Gallardo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rcooley" <rcooley at spamcop.net>
To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Re: gmplayer and SUID


> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Juan C. Gallardo wrote:
> > If you try to run gmplayer it seems like GTK don't allow the program to
run
> > because is surpassing the X-server, and a small message say something
about
> > doing a helper file.. which I have no idea how to do it.
> > Then looking again in internet I found a "helper" file, the one I wrote
> > before.
> > And even though I tried it, it didn't work. That's why I was asking if
some
> > one else knows how to access the gmplayer once set the SUID bit.
> >
> > I hope this time I explained better my self.
> >
> > Juan C. Gallardo
>
> Just to clarify, you are getting that message from GTK+, it has nothing
> to do with X.  I've seen this complain from GTK, that it isn't very
> secure to run a GTK app that is SUID...  Yes, it talks about a helper
> application, but that is to tell programmers that they should have a
> seperate, non-GTK app that is SUID, instead of the GTK app...  Unless
> you are going to rewrite GMPlayer, you really can't make a 'helper' app.
>
> There are a few things you could do.  You could run gmplayer as root
> using sudo, instead of setting it SUID.  You could visit the GTK site,
> and download and install an older version of glib/gtk.  Or, as I would
> suggest, you can download the source to the version of GTK you are
> using, and search through the source for part of the text of that
> message, to see where you can disable that...  There's nothing I hate
> more than a program that thinks it knows things better than I do, and
> second-guesses me.  I don't recall what version of GTK does this (it
> might just be some distro-specific package).
>
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