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Re: How Debian Linux could be made more secure



On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:50:45PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Today, I reported two bugs in debian packages which
> install binaries suid root.  Both bugs were avoidable:

There's a third one too---we install xterm suid root, which isn't necessary
(the alternative is to use a wrapper program to do pty allocation and utmp
entry). This was mentioned on one of these lists a couple of months ago.


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