Re: dpkg-statoverride vs. suidmanager
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> > I think there are still questions about how to transition a package from
> > suidregistered binaries to statoverridden binaries. After all, you don't
> > want whatever the user did with suidregister to be forgotten when they
> > upgrade..
>
> How about dpkg 1.8 will read /etc/suid.conf and import it into the
> statoverride database? I could do that pretty easily.
What happens to packages that continue to use suidregister after that,
though? I guess suidregister in the postinst will override statoverride.
So:
1. foo is suid by default, and suidregistered
2. dpkg upgrade happens, so it is not statoverridden to suid
3. user makes foo non-suid, updates /etc/suid.conf
4. foo's package is converted to just use statoverride, so the changes
from 3. are lost.
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see shy jo
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