Quoting warp@whitestar.soark.net (warp@whitestar.soark.net): > On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 07:44:42PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > You're right of course. Argh! Never really thought about it. > > > > So what do we do? I think we should move gnu-su out of fileutils into its > > own package and make the two su packages conflict with each other. > > Which still means that secure-su can not be installed on a debian > system, as findutils, which is 'Essential: yes' requires gnu-su... > > So, where does this leave us? Either secure-su gets patched to provide the functionality it's missing (which shouldn't be that hard: gnu su doesn't do much, and it's open source) so it can divert gnu su (and suggest that gnu su lose its suid bit) or secure-su is not really useful on a debian system. Mike Stone
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