Bug 176000

Summary:	mahjongg doesn't start because its setuid root
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jef Spaleta <jspaleta>
Component:	gnome-games	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description Jef Spaleta 2005-12-17 04:48:41 UTC

Description of problem:
>mahjongg

(mahjongg:4715): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-games-2.13.3-1

Expected results:
mahjongg should probably not be setuid root any longer since gtk seems to no
longer allow that.


-jef

Comment 1 Jef Spaleta 2005-12-17 04:53:51 UTC

This affects several games in gnome-games
mahjongg
gnomines
same-gnome
glines

all have the same error about setuid

without mahjongg or gnomines working how am I suppose to get through my workday?

-jef

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2005-12-17 04:55:36 UTC

Security implications, advice would be appreciated.

WHY would these things be setuid?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-12-17 05:13:10 UTC

They're setgid games, for writing score files. Have been that way for a while...

Comment 4 Jef Spaleta 2005-12-17 05:36:26 UTC

appearently gtk no longer likey the setgid

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2005-12-19 10:53:37 UTC

See http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19668#c8 for an explanation of
why these games have started being blocked (due to an upstream change in the games).

Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-12-19 10:56:13 UTC

Also http://lwn.net/Articles/156888/ which documents the new scores API behaviour