Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 22:44:24 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> said:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:22:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > Often, I believe that the discussion will determine whether or
>> > not it truly depends on being setid.
>>
>> That would be really hard to do, unless soneone gets into the nitty
>> gritty of the code and determines it is not.
> This is trivial, and should be documented even in the man page.
It is? OK, I am telling you /usr/bin/bar program in package
foo really needs to be sgid. I'll document it in bar.6. Is this the
end of discussion? Or are we going to really need to look at the code
to see if the setgidness can be worked around?
manoj
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