Bug#140757: debian-policy: init.d script shouldn't be executable by non-root
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Problem:
When my neophyte girlfriend tries to do "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as
non-root it does run, but says (erroneously):
Stopping GNOME Display Manager: gdm not running.
This is obviously a permissions problem. One solution for it would be
to disallow non-root users to run the scripts in /etc/init.d. Thus, I
would like to see the following text appended to 10.3.2:
"
Only root should have execute permissions for the init.d scripts.
"
Newbie alert: As I have never submitted anything to debian-policy
before, if I've done some silly mistake(s) I'd like to be notified
about them nicely :-).
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux foo 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 09:40:14 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO8859-1
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities
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