On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:42:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > You should really ask Russell Coker on -devel. There may well be a > policy to limit postinst scripts to the things that postinst scripts > typically do. Thanks I shall. I was thinking was that a postinst script, or package installation, can legitimately perform arbitary actions; add users, remove files, install setuid binaries, etc. It's an interesting problem.. Steve ---