Bug 666824 - Mahjongg uses setgid
Mahjongg uses setgid
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-games-superseded
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
3.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-games-general-maint
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Reported: 2011-12-25 00:01 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2012-01-18 02:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Jeremy Bicha 2011-12-25 00:01:41 UTC 
gnome-games 3.3.3 and gtk 3.3.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 amd64

$ mahjongg 

Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.
Comment 1 Robert Ancell 2011-12-25 00:04:48 UTC 
Hah!  They got us finally.  This is due to the scores system, which should be moved into a d-bus daemon...
Comment 2 Robert Ancell 2012-01-18 02:42:11 UTC 
Urk, it turned out I'd broken initialized in the deadly mess that is the games scores code.  It's fixed on master now.  It still should be split out into a service or something similar...
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