Re: *-src packages: sudo (what programs?)
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:19:25PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
> What programs are needed by the *-src packages for sudo to give access to?
If I understand you correctly, you want to compile source packages using
sudo, and have the sudo rights restricted to only those programs that the
source packages need? That approach doesn't work: source packages can and do
call a very large number of binaries.
If you're concerned about security when building source packages, you should
not use sudo or super, but you should install fakeroot and build -rfakeroot .
Fakeroot requires no priviledges a user doesn't have already, so it's safe.
The only reason source packages need to (think they) have root access, is to
set ownership and permissions on files that have been built.
HTH,
Ray
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