Re: Command Ownership

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

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.