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Bug#1027789: marked as done (libc-bin: zic should not be installed in /sbin/)

Your message dated Wed, 4 Jan 2023 06:54:59 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #1027789,
regarding libc-bin: zic should not be installed in /sbin/
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Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.36-7
Severity: normal

It seems very odd that zic is installed in /sbin/zic.

Jérémy


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libc-bin depends on:
ii  libc6  2.36-7

Versions of packages libc-bin recommends:
ii  manpages  6.02-1

libc-bin suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Hi,

On 2023-01-03 22:39, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> Le mar. 3 janv. 2023 à 21:23, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2023-01-03 12:18, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > Package: libc-bin
> > > Version: 2.36-7
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > It seems very odd that zic is installed in /sbin/zic.
> >
> > Could you please elaborate? zic is primarily used for administration
> > tasks and requires write access to /usr/share/zoneinfo in its default
> > invocation.
> >
> 
> I was just looking at https://bugs.debian.org/1003044
> and found out that it will call zic at some point, to be fixed.
> I had no idea it was in /sbin, because it didn't look like a root-only
> command to me.
> And when looking at other commands in /sbin, zic seems a bit to be a
> special case.
> But if you don't want to change that, that's okay for me.

Ok, thanks, closing the bug.

> >
> > Also please note that the debian package uses the same path than
> > upstream (as in glibc, tzdata, Linux man-pages), and matches what is
> > done on other SysV or BSD systems.
> >
> 
> Ok, I suppose it's for historical reasons, then.

Not really. Users call it to update files in /usr/share/zoneinfo, so it
makes sense to have it in /sbin. But scripts are usually using it as
non-root with the -d option.

It's similar to mkfs.ext4 which is also located in /sbin, but when
called from scripts, it is usually used as non-root to work on files.
And that's also true for route, gdisk, modinfo and probably many others.

Regards
Aurelien

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