Bug 1188716 - Remove setuid hddtemp dependency from xcfe4-sensors-plugin
Summary: Remove setuid hddtemp dependency from xcfe4-sensors-plugin
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xfce4-sensors-plugin
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christoph Wickert
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-03 15:00 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2015-12-02 17:19 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 08:29:49 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-02-03 15:00:47 UTC
Pasting a bug report from https://bugs.debian.org/685832:

"""
xfce4-sensors-plugin seems to want, although not necessary, to have hddtemp
setuid in the system in order to read the temperature of the HDD. It even goes 
to suggest to the user to setuid hddtemp.

But there is an option to fetch hddtemp information without having hddtemp
setuid, to read directly from a local port. This option is now disabled at
buildtime because there is no netcat installed during build.

So I just added netcat as a build depends and the resulting package works fine
and no longer recommends the user the unsafe option of running hddtemp setuid.
"""

A patch is attached to the bug linked above in case we want to fix this in Fedora.

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