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Re: Where to install a program called by an Apache module?



On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:31:13AM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm packaging mod_auth_shadow. It uses a setuid binary to be able to
> read /etc/shadow. Upstream installs it in /usr/sbin, but I don't think

just a sidenote, but it should be setgid shadow on debian, instead of
setuid root.  

> this is a very good idea since it's not meant to be used from cmdline
> and it might clash with some command sometime (it's name is "validate").
> 
> I'm not sure where to put it. The following come to my mind:
> 
> /usr/lib/libapache-mod-auth-shadow/validate
> /usr/lib/apache/validate
> /usr/lib/apache/mod_auth_shadow/validade
> /usr/sbin/validate
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> regards
> 
> Marcin
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> Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>             http://marcin.owsiany.pl/
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