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Bug#697438: linux-user-chroot Debian packaging



László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:

> Also please note that the current state can be interpreted as some
> kind of security threat. Its binary installed as setuid and executable
> for everyone. A more safe solution would be a separate group and only
> its members would be allowed to execute linux-user-chroot .

Yup, I'm not sure how serious the threat may be, but restricting it a
bit would fine for me.

Note though that the Fedora package does not do that[1] and since it is
done by Colin I'm not sure if we want to diverge from it.

Asking Colin about the group restriction may be a good a idea.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/linux-user-chroot.git/tree/linux-user-chroot.spec#n32


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