release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, I have a package that I have made a while back, which a lot of friends really find usefull. Essentially, it's a script that calls combinations of APT options and deborphan, to keep a system running Testing up-to-date, but cruft-free. Given the great feedback I've received from people

Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive about ten days ago... Here my questions: - how long takes the

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Jarno Elonen
The package is here.. http://funkyware.konflux.at/debian/pool/u/upgrade-system/ ..and the said utility script looks like this: source /etc/upgrade-system.conf echo Updating available package lists... apt-get -q=2 update echo -e \nUpgrading installed

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 09.52, Jarno Elonen wrote: echo -e \nCleaning APT cache... apt-get clean Isn't there an APT option that can be put in apt.conf.d that does the same? IMVHO as IANADD, this may find a place in the deborphan package. Or perhaps in some script collection package like

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-05-19 Fabio Tranchitella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive about ten days

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The package is here.. http://funkyware.konflux.at/debian/pool/u/upgrade-system/ ..and the said utility script looks like this: source /etc/upgrade-system.conf echo Updating available package lists... apt-get

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The package is here.. http://funkyware.konflux.at/debian/pool/u/upgrade-system/ ..and the said utility script looks like this: source

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and ruid or egid and rgid are different. It fixes

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Matt Brubeck
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: - A new minor upstream version is available for the package, my sponsor told me it is better to wait the package enters in unstable before send the new version, because every upload before this happens reset the timer and I have to wait more time to see

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and

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2004-05-19 Thread Jonathan Crockett
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2004-05-19 Thread calloway
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Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive about ten days ago... Here my questions: - how long

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On (19/05/04 15:54), Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Steven Augart
First, a retraction: James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and ruid or egid and rgid are different. It fixes this by setting the euid

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Grzegorz B. Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On (19/05/04 15:54), Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Now I know why I had such trouble getting setuid programs to work on Linux. My understanding of Greg and Jeroen's explanations is that the kernel ignores whether an interpreted program has the setuid bit set -- it just executes the interpreter given after the #!, passing the full pathname

release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, I have a package that I have made a while back, which a lot of friends really find usefull. Essentially, it's a script that calls combinations of APT options and deborphan, to keep a system running Testing up-to-date, but cruft-free. Given the great feedback I've received from people

Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive about ten days ago... Here my questions: - how long takes the

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Jarno Elonen
The package is here.. http://funkyware.konflux.at/debian/pool/u/upgrade-system/ ..and the said utility script looks like this: source /etc/upgrade-system.conf echo Updating available package lists... apt-get -q=2 update echo -e \nUpgrading installed

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 09.52, Jarno Elonen wrote: echo -e \nCleaning APT cache... apt-get clean Isn't there an APT option that can be put in apt.conf.d that does the same? IMVHO as IANADD, this may find a place in the deborphan package. Or perhaps in some script collection package like

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-05-19 Fabio Tranchitella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive about ten days

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:59:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Hi, I'm the mantainer of phpldapadmin, a web-based tool for managing ldap servers. I'm not (yet!) an official Debian developer, so I asked for a sponsor. He checked my package and uploaded in the unstable debian archive

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The package is here.. http://funkyware.konflux.at/debian/pool/u/upgrade-system/ ..and the said utility script looks like this: source /etc/upgrade-system.conf echo Updating available package lists... apt-get

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The package is here.. http://funkyware.konflux.at/debian/pool/u/upgrade-system/ ..and the said utility script looks like this: source

Re: release as a package or add to APTs file list?

2004-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin-Éric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 19 May 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: echo -e \nUpgrading installed packages... apt-get $UPGRADEOPTS This might fail if the cache is filled and /var nearly full. Not at all, since previous runs of this script would have cleaned

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and

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2004-05-19 Thread calloway
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Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: In this case, this setgid-wrapper concept would work for *all* Java applications. I'm still not sure if it will work for shell driven apps in general, but it sounds reasonable. Security may be a concern, but I believe that a

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On (19/05/04 15:54), Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On (19/05/04 13:14), Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: On (19/05/04 15:54), Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Could it be you mean bash droping the setuid/setgid bits when it is set setuid/setgid? Thats a bash speciality preventing hackers to setuid/gid bash as so many rootkits have done in the past.

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Steven Augart
First, a retraction: James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and ruid or egid and rgid are different. It fixes this by setting the euid to

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Now I know why I had such trouble getting setuid programs to work on Linux. My understanding of Greg and Jeroen's explanations is that the kernel ignores whether an interpreted program has the setuid bit set -- it just executes the interpreter given after the #!, passing the full pathname

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Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven Augart wrote: First, a retraction: James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and ruid or egid and rgid are different. It fixes