reassign 296896 sudo severity 296896 normal retitle 296896 sudo/sudoedit hardlinks make it hard to use dpkg-statoverride thanks On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 08:08 -0600, Steve Bremer wrote: >When I try to apply custom permission settings using dpkg-statoverride in >Sarge or SID (version 1.10.27), the settings aren't honored. It works fine >in Debian Woody ( version 1.9.21). > The version of sudo in sarge/sid contains an extra binary, /usr/bin/sudoedit which is actually a hardlink to /usr/bin/sudo. Because hardlinks have the same permissions, it is necessary to override the permissions of both. >Steps to reproduce problem: > >1. dpkg-statoverride --add root root 0755 /usr/bin/sudo 1b. dpkg-statoverride --add root root 0755 /usr/bin/sudoedit >2. apt-get install sudo >3. "ls -l /usr/bin/sudo" returns: > And it will work. >-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 97528 Dec 5 01:31 /usr/bin/sudo Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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