Re: Command Ownership
brian white writes ("Command Ownership "):
> What are the standards for ownership settings of binaries when
> creating a Debian package?
>
> When trying to run "efax", I had to do a
> chgrp dialout efax
> chmod g+s efax
>
> in order for it to work. Should "efax" have been installed this way?
No, almost certainly not. The right thing is probably to use `sudo',
or to add the appropriate users to the dialout group.
> This would be especially true if Debian came _without_ world access to the
> serial ports. Of hand, I can't remember if it came that way or I changed
> it to that.
It ought to come without such world access. Otherwise those of us
whose systems are on the net couldn't configure them to be secure.
Ian.
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