Re: setgid crontab

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 02-Aug-03, 14:51 (CDT), Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote: 
> Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid()
> calls), this involves the following changes:

To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the
build system. Not a problem for me, of course, but how do I indicate
to the build daemons this requirement? Or should I just set the group
and mode of /usr/bin/crontab and the directories in the postinst? The
downside is that doing so would seem to override any local requirements
or dpkg-statoverrides that the admin might have set.

I did not find any guidance in either the Policy manual or the
Developers Reference, if I missed it, please point me in the right
direction.

Thanks,
Steve

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Steve Greenland
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