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uuidd: do not drop privileges
authorPetr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
Thu, 3 May 2012 19:01:56 +0000 (21:01 +0200)
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Fri, 4 May 2012 13:14:11 +0000 (15:14 +0200)
commitcb20279fb047b9dc8d0a8dce651ca5e049c9c75d
tree74dcbd9bd14dec021cf3a43363d5377126f7adfa
parent18c68d70eed2ee8416c4e15fed886325de0bfae6
uuidd: do not drop privileges

libuuid can (for now) spawn uuidd on-demand. To support this scenario,
uuidd should be installed setuid/setgid to have access to
/var/lib/libuuid/clock.txt. Therefore, dropping the privileges is
not functional, so removing this ability.

Moreover, the ability to spawn uuidd on-demand will be removed anyway.

References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg05934.html

Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
misc-utils/uuidd.c