SUID pid files from gnome?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:28 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed in the daily mail that some gnome pid files are SUID/SGID  
> (system-tools-backends.pid). I'm puzzled why this is the case.

I looked into this, but my PID file (though still weird) has 0010 perms.
I'll investigate this some more.

Joe

> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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>       Datum: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:07:39 +0200 (CEST)
>         Von: Charlie Root <root at deskjail.leidinger.net>
> Antwort an: Charlie Root <root at deskjail.leidinger.net>
>     Betreff: deskjail.leidinger.net security run output
>          An: root at deskjail.leidinger.net
> 
> 
> Checking setuid files and devices:
> 
> deskjail.leidinger.net setuid diffs:
> --- /var/log/setuid.today	Mon Apr  9 03:06:47 2007
> +++ /tmp/security.YiYVwt2B	Tue Apr 10 03:07:37 2007
> 
> @@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
>   37926946 -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  mail      8664 Apr  8 20:25:36 2007  
> /usr/local/libexec/camel-lock-helper-1.2
>   37923519 -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     8520 Apr  8 12:18:41 2007  
> /usr/local/libexec/gnome-pty-helper
>   37926545 -r-sr-sr-x  1 root  wheel    45052 Apr  8 19:16:50 2007  
> /usr/local/libexec/gnome-screensaver-dialog
> +37923469 ---s--sr--  1 root  wheel        4 Apr  9 20:18:52 2007  
> /var/run/system-tools-backends.pid
> 
> 
> 
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