:: Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims
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Autor: Edward Bartolo
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims
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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