Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:58:24PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Julian Gilbey:
> 
> > But in cases where the only meaningful installation was suid or sgid (for
> > example, /bin/su), the deb always held a suid or sgid binary.
> 
> Hmmm, so my use of suidregister/dpkg-statoverride in the jwhois package
> isn't really a correct implementation? I am creating a group when the
> package is installed to own the shared cache it uses, and setgid the binary
> and the cache directory to that group. I also remove the group on
> de-installation.
> 
> Should I really just chown/chmod the binary and the cache directory in the
> installation scripts, and not call dpkg-statoverride as I do now?

If the binary must be setgid, then you should just chown/chmod the
binary.  If it could be used not-setgid, then use statoverride.

   Julian

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