Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

[Ben Collins <bmc@visi.net>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:18:59PM +1300, Robert Donn wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this violates policy or not (and thus whether to file a
> bug against it) - but Policy does not require postinsts using
> chmod/suidregister to give message or query, then perhaps it
> needs to be added...

Any program that is suid or sgid for no reason what-so-ever is always a
reason for a bug report, especially if it's suid root...we need some
automatic catch for new packages that have suid or sgid binaries in
them, or call suidregister.

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