Bug 8206

Summary:	KDE 3 Error Message to non-root users. artswrapper.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Preston <joshuapreston>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	trivial	CC:	kevin
Priority:	Highest
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joshua Preston 2002-09-22 02:09:44 UTC

I recently emerged KDE 3.0.3 on my Gentoo 1.4, X 4.2.1 Sparc64 sun4u system. 
Upon logging in as a normal user (w/sound enabled), I received an error message
stating that artswrapper needs to be run as root in order to get the best
quality.  Quite annoying, IMHO.  The easy fix is to setuid root on it, by
running as root 'chmod +s /usr/kde/3/bin/artswrapper'...

There are several discussions regarding this issue.

The census seems to dictate a false alarm on the security issues resulting from
the setuid on artswrapper. The only problems would occur when artsd is setuid
root...

I have included the links from some of this discussion below.

http://lwn.net/Articles/4343/
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian_advisory-2303.htmlhttp://www.linux-tech.com/archives/bugtraq/0143.html

I don't know if this affects everyone or not, but simply put, it gets really
seeing that stupid message every time.

peace out

Joshua Preston.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-22 13:09:47 UTC

post comments to bug 7883 ... it deals with arts + setuid bits

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7883 ***