Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> Any program that is suid or sgid for no reason what-so-ever is always a
> reason for a bug report, especially if it's suid root...we need some
> automatic catch for new packages that have suid or sgid binaries in
> them, or call suidregister.

Lintian can serve as a check for the former case. See
http://master.debian.org/~dark/lintian/reports/Tsetuid-binary.html

I don't think it handles suidmanager yet.

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