Re: Solaris 7 setgid problem

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 08:43:07 PDT

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    Larry wrote:
    >
    > I have a SPARCstation running Solaris 7 on which I have installed both
    > the sane-backends-1.0.4 and sane-frontends-1.0.4 and, as suggested, made
    > the the scanner device permissions 660 with group "scanner". I have also
    > made scanimage and xscanimage setgid with group scanner as well. scanimage
    > is working fine and I have no problems with it.
    >
    > However, when I run xscanimage, I get a "warning" message from the GTK+
    > library (1.2) telling me that I can't run setgid programs with it (it
    > also mentions something about a wrapper program). It then refuses to
    > load and subsequently exits. I followed the URL mentioned in the warning
    > message, but it didn't really enlighten me.
    >
    > I'm sure somebody must have run into this problem before. Does anybody
    > have any suggestions on how to get around this problem?

    Hi Larry,

    don`t set the set-group bit for xscanimage.
    Add the people who shall be able to run xscanimage to the group "scanner".

    Bye
    Oliver 

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