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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:48:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>
Cc:        vsilyaev@mindspring.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: About VMware port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003231747040.54235-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <86zorqvepq.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:

>   - Without Linux procfs, you need to setuid some of the binaries to
>   root.  Currently I'm not sure which ones are safe to setuid or which
>   ones are enough to run VM.

Be careful when doing this, of course..lots of things aren't safe to make
setuid and it's not always easy to tell which ones are safe without an
audit of the source.

Kris

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