On 14 Jul 2018, at 2:09 (-0400), Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
rlogin, rsh, and I think rcp need to be setuid root, because they have
to use privileged ports. But they were installed without the setuid
root permission set (they worked normally after setting it by hand).
Is there any reason that isn't set as part of installation? Granted
it's not without downside, but someone that's using the old r-commands
probably isn't too worried about that anyway.
It looks like this is a bug in the inetutils config/build system. It
selects '/usr/bin/install' as the install tool, but does not verify what
flavor of 'install' that is, assuming that it will allow GNU 'install'
argument ordering. However, that's a BSD-heritage 'install' which does
not handle putting the source filename before options, and it breaks.
Making things worse, it is a breakage that inetutils is entirely
unprepared for, because it assumes that the only way 'install' can fail
is a permissions problem.
I've just submitted a bug to the GNU inetutils maintainer.
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