Re: suidregister vs. bsdgames

[Adam Klein <aklein@eskimo.com>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 11:40:30PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> writes:
> 
>     Chris> The bsdgames postinst script includes a bunch of lines
>     Chris> like: suidregister -s bsdgames /usr/games/robots root games
>     Chris> 02755
> 
>     Chris> The suidmanager complains loudly, every day, in email,
>     Chris> about the leading zero in the permissions.  I feel like I
>     Chris> should file a bug report against one or the other of these
>     Chris> packages, but I'm not sure which one. 
> 
> suidmanager is the one with the bug. A leading 0 is correct and
> technically required for octal numbers. It shouldn't be complaining.

You're right, and as many have heard by now, a new version which fixes this
problem as well as many others is on the way.

Thanks for your patience,
Adam
(suidmanager maintainer)