[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#685832: Bug#685832: xfce4-sensors-plugin: xcfe4-sensors-plugin relies on a setuid hddtemp and recommends to setuid it

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2012-08-25 at 00:49 +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> xfce4-sensors-plugin seems to want, although not necessary, to have
> hddtemp
> setuid in the system in order to read the temperature of the HDD. It
> even goes 
> to suggest to the user to setuid hddtemp.
> 
> But there is an option to fetch hddtemp information without having
> hddtemp
> setuid, to read directly from a local port. This option is now
> disabled at
> buildtime because there is no netcat installed during build.
> 
> So I just added netcat as a build depends and the resulting package
> works fine
> and no longer recommends the user the unsafe option of running hddtemp
> setuid.
> 
Note that it also silently breaks for users which don't have hddtemp
running as a root daemon, which is not a really nice solution either.
-- 
Yves-Alexis
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 490 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/attachments/20130529/d344a336/attachment.pgp>