Re: suidmanager
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Martin Fluch said:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote:
> >
> > > Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here:
> > > xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about
> > > suidmanager?
> >
> > The suid.conf file is used to track programs with special permissions, so
> > that is easy to see, if they are changeing.
> Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I
> have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be
> available only for the group 'screen', the tracertoute, fping, nmap and more
> to be available only to the 'adm' group. The suid.conf file is a great way
> to do such modifications, but not when they are reset everytime the package
> in question re-registers itself. To get around it, I have just prepended to
> the packages' names a letter M and every time suid.conf is modified by the
> postinst script, I just move the M packages block to the end of the file and
> run suidregister by hand. While it works, it is really annoying.
> What do you think about slightly modifying the suidregister procedure NOT to
> modify already existent entries? Or perhaps, as an alternative, provide a
> means to localize the settings by including suid-local.conf file AFTER
> processing of the suid.conf file?
>
> marek
Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ...
Martin
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