SUID executable policy?

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:33:52PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> What is the policy/guidelines around having Set UID executables in
> Fedora?
> I maintain libsmbios. Libsmbios has to read the system DMI/SMBIOS table
> to do its job, and this table can currently only be obtained by
> mmap()-ing /dev/mem.  I also need to read certain areas of RAM to get
> teh Dell system id, which is not in the DMI tables. I would like to make
> some of this available to non-root users, but the only way I can think
> of do do this involves SUID executables.
> Can anybody suggest a better way?

<http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-March/004770.html>





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