On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:21:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Joey Hess wrote: > > Wichert, Adam, what do you think? > > We'll have to make it dpkg >=1.8 since that will fix some stupid bugs > in dpkg-statoverride, and we'll have to be careful to coordinate > uploading the packages at the same day. Otherwise I don't have any > objections. Sounds fine to me too. > Oh, yes, one issue: there is no way suidmanager can really know it > an entry in suid.conf is a user override or not. The only indication > could be a package name, but there is nothing prevent somebody from > having a package called `local' or `user' installed which will mess > up an automatic switch. Yeah, that's always been an issue. In fact, a package called `local' or `user' would rather break suidmanager. Which just goes to show that suidmanager has always been a hack. It'll be nice to get rid of it. Adam
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