On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:34 -0500, Adam Skutt wrote: >Scott James Remnant wrote: > >> In particular, start-stop-daemon documents >> that --chuid is incomplete and, for example, doesn't even set >> supplementary groups. >Actually, no, it doesn't. The manpage says: >When using this option you must realize that the primary and >supplemental groups are set as well, even if the --group option >is not specified. > Uh, yes; sorry, slight brain-fade there. >At the very least IMHO, the documentation should be updated for sarge if >this patch isn't applied. Daemons that need proper user-switching >behavior can't reliably use start-stop-daemon as-is, and that should be >clearly documented. > This is not a regression against woody, which didn't set HOME or document that it wasn't set. Therefore there is no call to update this for sarge so deep into freeze. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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