Re: setgid stuff
I think setgid in the scripts is likely the way to do it (IANADD,Yet) --
would a Suggest: suidmanager
Is suggesting the suidmanager package a good solution? It looks nice.. :)
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 06:43:59PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> I am involved in Debianizing a program (I am not the listed maintainer of
> it, simply because the registration is closed), and have struck a problem.
>
> The program, jwhois (should be in the distribution now), has been changed so
> that it will keep a cache of previous lookups. To get this to work, the
> binary need to be setgid some group. Now I wonder how this should be
> handled, should the binary be setgid in the .deb file, or should that be set
> in the installation scripts? Can it be created automatically by debhelper
> rules? Which group can I use?
>
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