Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:42:39PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2003:09:05:21:08:07+0100] scribed:
> > Incidentally, why sudo? dpkg doesn't need any special privileges just to
> > search its database.
>
> # id
> uid=1000(mds) gid=1000(mds)
> groups=1000(mds),6(disk),29(audio),50(staff),1001(sambamount),1002(mysql)
>
> # dpkg -S /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
> bash: /usr/bin/dpkg: Permission denied
>
> Is this because of tiger, or bastille?
>
> # ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg
> -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 153944 Apr 26 15:19 /usr/bin/dpkg
Wow. Don't do that, then. Those permissions are daft; if a "security
tool" did that then you should stop using it immediately, as its authors
clearly have grave difficulties with the concept of a security boundary
and where to put it.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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