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Auteur: Edward Bartolo
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims
I will now organise the backend's source into separate files using
header files and source files. This to make the code more manageable
and to ease the life of anyone wanting to fork it.

On 20/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> This is a link for the network-manager GUI running under Devuan 64 bit.
>
> http://s9.postimg.org/57gjwuopr/functional_network_manager_GUI.png
>
> On 20/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>> I am uploading a screenshot of the network manager GUI. As you can
>> see, it is functional, but like anything new, I need more time to fine
>> tune and debug it.
>>
>> On 20/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>>> Regarding getting rid of requiring sudo, I vaguely remember suids are
>>> something that have to do with file permissions. Please, could you
>>> instruct me what I should read? Removal of sudo dependency from the
>>> entire project is a matter of editing 2 or 3 lines in the Lazarus GUI
>>> project. The latter is responsible for calling the backend with root
>>> privileges.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>>>> The time for repository upload is approaching...
>>>>
>>>> Since, I am only a humble amateur coder, I still have not figured out
>>>> how to create a proper Debian source package. This means, I will have
>>>> to create a tar.gz archive as follows:
>>>>
>>>> source-tarball.tar.gz
>>>> |
>>>> |-------cli-backend------------backend.c
>>>> |
>>>> |-------network-manager (lazarus project source files as created by
>>>> Lazarus)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, I would like to learn to use the maintainer tools to avoid
>>>> doing it manually. Ideally, dpkg-buildpackage should be able to build
>>>> a .deb package out of the sources without any other intervention, but
>>>> those are my current limits.
>>>>
>>>> Please be aware that no pre-installation and post-installation scripts
>>>> will be included. If you want me to write those, it will be yet
>>>> another challenge.
>>>>
>>>> Edward
>>>>
>>>> On 20/08/2015, John Morris <jmorris@???> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 06:48 +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>>>>>> The backends can be integrated into one single executable not to
>>>>>> clutter the sudoers file and to increase system efficiency.
>>>>>
>>>>> One suggestion here. Forget sudo and just make the backend suid root
>>>>> like other system utilities of this type. Just make darned sure there
>>>>> is no way to feed it command line input that could allow a root
>>>>> exploit
>>>>> of course. It can check whatever permissions like ownership of the
>>>>> local console/display, membership in wheel, etc. are desired to
>>>>> restrict
>>>>> usage to only some users itself. Maintaining rules in sudoers is less
>>>>> packagable even now that there is a /etc/sudoers.d directory to dump
>>>>> fragments into.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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