Re: How Debian Linux could be made more secure
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 12:50:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:50:45PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > First, the Debian Policy should be enhanced by a paragraph
> > on suid binaries. The policy should emphasize the least
> > privilege principle. It should require the use of
> > suidmanager when installing scripts suid root.
> >
> > Further, the policy should require maintainers to tag bug
> > reports about programs running suid root "critical". (You
> > may also consider to add an option to the bug program
> > which tags a bug report as a security problem, and thus
> > "critical". This is also interesting for network programs
> > which have security breaches and/or denial of service
> > vulnerabilities.)
I thought lintian already detects setuid binaries and needs
confirmation by the author that it needs to be setuser or
not.
Regards,
Joey
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