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Re: Suid Manager?



Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:

> I assume that qmail wants some files to be owned by these 7 users and 1 
> group, and some of those to be SUID and SGID.  As I understand how dpkg 
> works, the files are unpacked before the users would be created, so 
> there is no guarantee that they will be installed with the right UIDs, 
> especially if the accounts are dynamically allocated.

They're dynamically allocated, but with specific UID values.  The
values are chosen centrally.  So the package has the same UID values
on every installation.


Guy

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