On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Jozef Hitzinger wrote: > There are two daemons, running as nobody.nogroup, and they need to access > the state file (/var/state/ups/*). Could you tell me where & how to chown Are you sure you want to use nobody.nogroup? If multiple packages use the same UID and GID (instead of a unique UID:GID), the security goes downhill... I am a bit surpised that this doesn't seem to be mentioned in the policy (not my version at least). The only other packages that I am aware of (I haven't looked too hard) that uses nobody:nogroup is the one containing /etc/cron.daily/find and Samba. So if somebody broke into the guest account of Samba, they could also destroy your state files and kill your daemon too. (Anybody - Please correct me if I am wrong... It doesn't seem to be a problem that both /etc/cron.daily/find and Samba use nobody, on slink, so maybe I have overstated the problem.) > it? I'm using current debhelper package, with dh_fixperm in debian/rules. I don't think it matters exactly where it goes - just as long as it works. Are you sure you need chown? If the file is installed, using "install", you can use the -o and -g options to set the ownership to what you want. -- Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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