Re: cron reports re: suidregister
*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: cron reports re: suidregister"
> On 01/07/00 02:22PM, Brian Servis wrote:
>>
>> If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something
>> is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be
>> there, even if you don't use it. If you have removed emacs20 from your
>> system and it left the line in your suid.conf file then that is a bug in
>> the emacs20 package. The proper way to remove the line is to use the
>> suidunregister program. Commenting the line out shouldn't cause
>> problems unless you have emacs20 installed and you your system by
>> putting movemail back in place. Then the mode of the file will not be
>> checked for possible root exploits via the permisions.
>>
>
> Thanks Brian
>
> It helps when I check the versions of stuff I'm running. I currently
> have emacs 20.5 installed, but the movemail error is from 20.3 There
> is a movemail in the emacs 20.5 subdirs.
>
> Since 20.3 is no longer installed, then I'll just look at the docs
> for suidregister and remove the line.
>
> Since this appears to be a bug, should it be reported even though a
> newer emacs package is available?
>
Since you have 20.5 installed I would definetely remove the line
pertaining to 20.3. According to the changelog.Debian there were
several issues regarding suidregister that were taken care of between
the slink version and the potato version. My bet is that it is already
fixed.
Brian Servis
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