[Bug 221531] Re: Thinklight doesn't blink because /proc/acpi/ibm/thinklight has wrong permissions

[Christian Mangold]

** Description changed:

+ == SRU request for jaunty: ==
+ 
  Symptom: The thinklight plugin is not able to let the thinklight blink.
  It gives an error message that the file /proc/acpi/ibm/light cannot be
  written to.
  
- Reason: The suid bit of the executable
- /usr/bin/kopete_thinklight_fixpermissions, which is executed on plugin
- startup, is not set and so it fails to set rw permission on the
- thinklight file.
+ Reason: Upstream does not install with SUID bit enabled.
  
- Solution: The executable /usr/bin/kopete_thinklight_fixpermissions needs
- to be installed with the suid bit set.
+ Solution: The build system has to be patched, so that cmake installs
+ kopete_thinklight_fixpermissions with suid-bit.
+ 
+ Development version: Already fixed in karmic with the same patch as
+ being proposed here.
+ 
+ Regression potential:
+ Insignificant. The patch only touches the kopete-plugin-thinklight specific code and it is actually not working.

** Attachment added: "debdiff for stable release update"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28917993/kopete-plugin-thinklight_0.3%2Bsvn894853-0ubuntu2.debdiff

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Thinklight doesn't blink because /proc/acpi/ibm/thinklight has wrong permissions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221531
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