[6195] in bugtraq
Re: x11amp playlist bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Heitner)
Mon Mar 2 15:11:54 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 17:37:30 -0600
Reply-To: Ari Heitner <aheitner@TJHSST.EDU>
From: Ari Heitner <aheitner@TJHSST.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980228171903.549B-100000@ari.dragon.cz>
> hi,
>
>
> x11 audio mpeg player (x11amp) version 0.65, when installed setuid root
> (as suggested by the README file), creates playlist files in ~/.x11amp
> while making 'root' the owner of these plaintext files (instead of the
I installed x11amp w/o making it setuid, it's perms are
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 623456 Feb 23 13:33 x11amp*
it works very nicely. I don't know why the x11amp people would recommend
setuiding it to root, except that this may avoid access problems writing
to /dev/dsp.
Ari Heitner
aheitner@tjhsst.edu
