[vorbis] Renice ogg123

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Cameron Patrick wrote on 2003-08-15:

> | I haven't tried to figure this out for myself, but I think the sudo command
> | can do that.  It's a generic SUID thingy that lets you chose commands users
> | can run as root, so you could probably allow "nice -n -5 ogg123 *" and
> | nothing else.
>
> This sounds as though it'd have the problem of allowing a normal user to
> overwrite an arbitrary file (possibly including /dev/hda) with an WAV
> file produced by ogg123, and also to read any Ogg file owned by other
> users regardless of file permissions.
>
You could also only allow oggenc from stdin to stdout; the redirection
wil be performed by the user's shell so it'll be subject to his access
rights.


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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
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