Re: policy violation and bug reports. - some resolution?

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On 27 Feb 1998, James Troup wrote:

> Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> 
> > >   - make the program setuid in the .deb file. Additionally, put this in the
> > > postinst:
> > 
> > No, games should not be `setuid', but `setgid games' only.
> 
> Uh, svgalib based games have this unfortunate habit of requiring root.

Of course. Lintian currently knows the following cases:

  game:     binary may be setgid-games
  svgalib:  binary may be setuid-root

Every other use of setgid/setuid needs acknowledgement by the maintainers. 


Thanks,

Chris

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