On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:32:13AM -0500, William R. Knox wrote: > The client parts of LPRng are often installed setuid root so that they can > send from a privileged port (something in the RFC states that requests > need to be issued from the range 721-731 - most lpd servers do not enforce > that, but that's why the client would be installed as root). >
This is true but as Patrick would no doubt say for every implementation that adhered to this part of the standard there would be another that didn't. LPRng for instance will do either. On Debian installations, for example, the default is not to setuid root the binaries as for most installations you don't need it. If you don't need setuid root binaries then don't make them that way. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
