On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:48, Tom Eastman wrote:
> On the same subject, how can I know whether a suid binary I find is
> supposed to be suid? For example, why on *earth* is 'ping' suid? Is it
> supposed to be? How about 'gnuplot'? How can that possibly need to be
> suid?
Answered my own question by looking at the ebuild for gnuplot. I had the SVGA
use flag set which sets it suid. Ah well it turns out there's a honking big
warning that it prints as well... must not have been paying attention when I
installed it :-)
Tom
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