Originally Posted by micko

Hi

I'm trying to make an icon to start mosh and screen -rD. With ssh everything works by making file /usr/share/applications/irssi.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Irssi
Exec=fingerterm -e "ssh user@server -t screen -rDU"
Icon=icon-l-terminal

Mosh works perfectly from command line after I installed it with these instructions.

Trying the icon thing with mosh gives me an error
Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setgid at /usr/bin/mosh line 204.

Asking around IRC(#jollamobile and #mosh) didn't give me much new information. I actually know nothing about this setgid thing so I'm quite lost. Here's a clip of log from #mosh. Maybe someone here can help?

Code:

22:18 < micko_> Hi, I'm trying to make a mosh-screen shortcut on Jolla using fingerterm.
22:18 < micko_> I get an error: "Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setgid at /usr/bin/mosh line 204."
22:18 < micko_> any ideas how to fix that?
22:19 < ddrown> your /usr/bin/mosh is setgid?
22:21 < micko_> how can I know that?
22:23 < ddrown> ls -l /usr/bin/mosh
22:24 < ddrown> looking for the permission strings, might look like: '-rwxr-sr-x'
22:24 < micko_> -rwxr-xr-x
22:25 < ddrown> ok, what is it using for the path (first line), "#!/usr/bin/env perl"?
22:25 < micko_> #!/usr/bin/env perl
22:25 < ddrown> ok, are /usr/bin/env or perl setgid?
22:26 < micko_> no
22:26 < ddrown> ok, how about fingerterm?
22:27 < ddrown> the command "id" might tell you that
22:28 < micko_> permissions on fingerterm has no s either, but what am I supposed to look with id?
22:29 < ddrown> hm. how about this:
22:29 < ddrown> perl -e 'print "R=$) E=$(\n"'
22:29 < ddrown> should print your real and effective gids  
22:30 < micko_> R=0 39 100 994 995 996 999 1000 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1024 100000 E=0 39 100 994 995 996 999 1000 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1024 100000
22:32 < ddrown> hm
22:34 < ddrown> well, that looks right
22:35 < ddrown> you can try throwing that print statement in /usr/bin/mosh to see if it's running under a different environment 
22:35 < ddrown> a workaround would be setting $ENV{PATH} before line 204
22:35 < ddrown> but I don't understand why perl thinks its setgid
22:39 < micko_> I'll try setting that. And I'll ask sailfish developers about that as well. they had no idea about that error on #jollamobile when I asked
22:39 < micko_> thanks
22:56 < micko_> setting the path lead to new problems
22:57 < micko_> but the print statement gave different numbers
22:57 < micko_> there were R=998.... and E=100000...
22:57 < micko_> rest of the numbers are the same
23:00 < ddrown> ok, there's something wierd with how that works
23:13 < KeithW> Mosh on Jolla! Cool.
23:21 < micko_> here's where I installed it from http://blog.ruecker.fi/2013/12/01/mosh-for-sailfish/
23:22 < KeithW> I'm guessing that guy will know more than anybody here what the issue is with setgid.
23:22 < KeithW> Maybe it has to do with Jolla's security model, but I'm really just guessing.
23:24 < micko_> weird is that when I open fingerterm command line and type mosh user@server it works perfectly
23:25 < micko_> but when I try to open fingerterm with switch -e "mosh user@server" it doesn't
23:30 < ddrown> what is "switch"?
23:31 < ddrown> I'm guessing it's a setgid command line tool
23:32 < micko_> I meaned the -e switch
23:33 < micko_> Exec=fingerterm -e "mosh mhjlai@ellipsis.fi"
23:33 < ddrown> ah
23:36 < KeithW> Maybe fingerterm is setgid something because it wants to twiddle utmp, and it somehow passes this on to programs it runs?
23:36 < KeithW> Maybe not fingerterm itself, but some tty helper? I'm guessing here.
23:36 < KeithW> Anyway, it seems like a bug.
23:37 < ddrown> figuring out what group id 998 is used for would be a good start in answering why
23:37 < micko_> the group 998 is "privileged"

If I understood correctly, the problem is with users and groups Sailfish uses (nemo and privileged).