Re: Mustek 600 II N updates + file ownerships
Christoph Doerbeck (doerbeck@dma.isg.mot.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:07:47 -0400
> > Another thing: When using xscanimage with suid root to get access
> > to the port, it seems that file ownership for the output files created
> > also defaults to root. This is sometimes annoying, although not serious.
>
> Is it still the case with 0.74 ? I think I had to remove the
> file /tmp/out.pnm as root before being able to scan into that file,
> but may be I have missed to set the mode 4755 before doing this...
>
Why on earth would you want to run xscanimage setuid root? This is an
aweful practice in my opinion. Why not just set read/write permissions
on the /dev/device?
Am I missing something?
- Christoph
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