Re: too many suids? (was Re: dpkg-statoverride vs. suidmanager)
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:
> Previously Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > i don't like having too many suids on my systems... too many suids...
>
> Considering the number of packages we have and that a nice number of
> those are probably setgids instead of setuids the number is actually
> quite low.
Just checked on a fairly minimalistic server here and my laptop that I
use for development work. Both run potato (with security updates).
server 21 suid programs / 121 packages installed
laptop 22 suid programs / 339 packages installed
I haven't changed any of the default permissions (AFAICR).
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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