Re: Advice packaging jazip (suid!!)
robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Couldn't jazip be setgid to disk?
Probably, but I'd need to change group permission on the jaz/zip scsi
device to `rw'. By default it's only `r' (on my system anyway).
$ ls -l /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 May 19 1997 /dev/sda
Would it be okay for me to write a jazip configuration script that did
that? Is a package allowed to do that?
What I might wind up doing anyway is moving the jazip executable to
/usr/lib/jazip/jazip and create a /usr/bin/jazip script to call it with the
right device, e.g.:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/lib/jazip/jazip /dev/sdc "$@"
So I'll need a configuration script to prompt the user for the scsi device
to use, using parsed /proc/scsi/scsi as an initial guess. At the same time
I can change the permissions on the scsi device (I don't really know how
I'll implement changing them back!)
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