[MacPorts] #37766: htop: binary should be installed SGID procmod, not SUID root

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Thu Jan 24 03:49:51 PST 2013


#37766: htop: binary should be installed SGID procmod, not SUID root
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  Reporter:  michael.klein@…  |      Owner:  cal@…
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  High             |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  htop             |
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Changes (by cal@…):

 * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 I agree, installing SUID root is not a good thing in this case. I don't
 think I was able to kill random processes without running `htop` as `sudo
 htop`, though. I wonder whether my system is different there, but can't
 check at the moment.

 I also wonder whether there is a way to automatically determine when we're
 in a non-root installation and change the default variants accordingly.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37766#comment:2>
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