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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
> --
> _-_-_-_-_-   Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux"  _-_-_-_-_-_-
> _-                                                                    _-
> _- aka   Dale Scheetz                   Phone:   1 (850) 656-9769     _-
> _-       Flexible Software              11000 McCrackin Road          _-
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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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