perms of /dev/uhid0
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-security-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Nov 26 09:35:12 PST 2003
Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> writes:
> if (!(pwent = getpwnam("nobody")))
> {
> fprintf(stderr, "There must be a user called nobody
> for this program to work!");
> exit(1);
> }
It would be safer to create a different user specifically for this
purpose. Otherwise, something else running as nobody might have
access to more privileges than it was intended for...
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