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Re: ping must run as root?!



On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> Hmmm it works now. Maybe I caught ping while netbase was being
> upgraded? When the package is upgraded, does the setuid bit get erased for
> that duration?

/bin/ping is not setuid in the .deb, but instead chmodded / suidregistered
in the postinst. So in between dpkg unpacking the new .deb, and the postinst
finishing, ping will not be setuid.

Cheers,
aj

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