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Re: More Debian v1.2 things...



Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> Another point to think about is whether such a program should be setuid
> root or whether the admin should su to root before running it. It should
> be possible to make it safe if there is a, say, 'dpkg' group and your
> tk-dselect is owned by root:dpkg and mode 4754.
> 

It should not be setuid root.  This would be too big of a security
hole.  Any package could install a setuid root sh.


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kevin
kevin@aimnet.com

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