[fpc-pascal] Re: Issue with deploying linux application in /opt directory

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bernd wrote:
> 2012/9/4 Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Perhaps you're using some protection/privilege management system
>> (AppArmor, SELinux, something else) that restricts internet access to
>> the application running under root...
> 
> The owner of the file or the folder does not affect under which UID it
> will run. All other programs in the system and the folders where they
> are installed are usually owned by root (to prevent manipulation by
> users) but this does NOT affect in any way under which UID they will
> run when they are started. They will always run with the UID of the
> user who started them (unless you set the suid bit which is considered
> evil and should not be neccessary in most normal situations).

Setuid root does not work with GTK. Appropriate use of capabilities does.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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