Template: beep/suid_option
Type: select
-_Choices: suid root for all, suid root with only group audio executable, not suid at all
+__Choices: usable for all, usable for group audio, usable only for root
Default: suid root with only group audio executable
-_Description: How do you want to handle suid root for the beep program?
+_Description: Install beep as:
beep must be run as root since it needs to access the speaker hardware.
- There are several posibilities to make the program usable: Either only
+ There are several possibilities to make the program usable: Either only
for root (no suid bit at all), executable only by users of the group
audio, or usable for all.
.
Since each program set as suid root can be a security risk this is not done
by default. However, the program is quite small (~150 lines of code), so it
is fairly easy to verify the safety of the code yourself, if you don't
- trust my judgement.
+ trust the package maintainer's judgement.