suid programs and the installer is de-facto such a beast should not be written if one can avoid it. Providing users with sufficient powerful APIs and installing

suid programs and the installer is de-facto such a beast should not be written if one can avoid it. Providing users with sufficient powerful APIs and installing software on a per user level is one way to avoid this mess. Another is to delegate installation to the operating system and not rolling your own. Anyone else messing up this way may be able to point to Microsoft. Now those folks at Skype are here in a bit a pickle.