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
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
Security implications, advice would be appreciated. WHY would these things be setuid?
They're setgid games, for writing score files. Have been that way for a while...
appearently gtk no longer likey the setgid
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).
Also http://lwn.net/Articles/156888/ which documents the new scores API behaviour