Can't reach Wichert from mail.polaris.net
I tried to send the following message to Wichert, but his mail server
bounced the mail, saying that the reverse IP lookup failed.
I'm willing to hear an answer from anyone ;-)
Thanks,
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Lintian is throwing a warning because I'm trying to deliver an suid binary
> in the atari800 package. The svgalib version will not execute for a user
> unless it is set uid root.
>
> I looked at suidmanager, which says it is replaced by dpkg-statoverride.
>
> I can't find anything in policy about this, but then I can't ever find
> anything in policy, even when it's there ;-)
>
> So, is it wrong to deliver binaries setuid? This program will not work for
> anyone but root unless set uid root. Am I supposed to leave this up to the
> sysadmin, or is it ok to deliver a working program?
>
> TIA,
>
> Dwarf
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Dwarf
--
_-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" _-_-_-_-_-_-
_- _-
_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _-
_- Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road _-
_- e-mail: dwarf@polaris.net Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-
_- _-
_-_-_-_-_- Released under the GNU Free Documentation License _-_-_-_-
available at: http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/
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