Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread D. Boland
Hi Achim, Achim Gratz wrote: D. Boland writes: I still think you should name it differently. Marco has already mixed it up with Apache suexec… The idea kind of was to mix it up, so people will know what it does. Apache suexec is concerned with running new processes as a different

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/21/2014 06:19 AM, D. Boland wrote: Your library is concerned with inserting itself into certain calls to swap uid/gid so programs expecting a fixed mapping of some uid/gid to certain capabilities (roughly associated with the concept of a root user) work without the actual source getting

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 06:20, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/21/2014 06:19 AM, D. Boland wrote: Your library is concerned with inserting itself into certain calls to swap uid/gid so programs expecting a fixed mapping of some uid/gid to certain capabilities (roughly associated with the concept of a root

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, Corinna. Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 23:14:35 you wrote: Packaging looks good, basically, but the executables are in /usr/bin, while on Linux they are in /usr/sbin. Would you mind to move them? No, i don't mind. I will. Btw., can you give a quick overview what's going to happen

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, Yaakov. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 6:04:38 you wrote: I'm wondering if onc-rpc-devel (which I'm starting to think should just be called rpcgen) shouldn't obsolete sunrpc too instead of this. I went for a new name because rpcgen was just rpcgen, and the new package is rpcgen +

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, Yaakov. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 6:04:38 you wrote: These are in /usr/sbin on Fedora, so in this particular case: cyginstall bindir=/usr/sbin By the way, i just have noticed that Cygwin actually doesn't have /usr/sbin. At least we don't have it in $PATH by default. For the

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 18:58, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello, Yaakov. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 6:04:38 you wrote: These are in /usr/sbin on Fedora, so in this particular case: cyginstall bindir=/usr/sbin By the way, i just have noticed that Cygwin actually doesn't have /usr/sbin. At least

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 18:42, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello, Corinna. Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 23:14:35 you wrote: Packaging looks good, basically, but the executables are in /usr/bin, while on Linux they are in /usr/sbin. Would you mind to move them? No, i don't mind. I will. Btw., can you

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, D.. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 16:19:00 you wrote: susim? simsu? fakesu? Suggestions are welcome... cygsu cygroot Just 'cyg' somehow sounds better IMHO. But it's really just MHO. -- Kind regards, Pavel

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, Corinna. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:08:58 you wrote: That's a generic installation problem, not a problem of your package. Yes, may be, however this doesn't give any answer to: how will we solve this particular problem right now ? There are variants: 1. I leave rpcinfo in

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
D. Boland writes: fakesu? I'd go with fakeid personally. But that's a joke that's probably too hard to get… so fakesu is also good. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld:

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 19:58, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello, Corinna. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:08:58 you wrote: That's a generic installation problem, not a problem of your package. Yes, may be, however this doesn't give any answer to: how will we solve this particular problem right now ?

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: We can (and maybe should) consider to add /usr/sbin to $PATH by default in /etc/profile, but that's a discussion concerning the base-files package in the first place. Only root should have it in PATH otherwise you could just install everything in /usr/bin and forget

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 18:53, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: We can (and maybe should) consider to add /usr/sbin to $PATH by default in /etc/profile, but that's a discussion concerning the base-files package in the first place. Only root should have it in PATH otherwise you could just

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Procps only for sysctl, and sysctl is not working on Cygwin anyway. I'll create a new procps package which omits sysctl entirely. Great, thank you. As for sysvinit (and potential others), I'm not exactly keen to add another hardcoded mount /usr/sbin - /sbin or some

Re: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1

2014-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 20:47, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Procps only for sysctl, and sysctl is not working on Cygwin anyway. I'll create a new procps package which omits sysctl entirely. Great, thank you. As for sysvinit (and potential others), I'm not exactly keen to add another

Re: additions to base-files (was: [ITP] rpcbind 0.2.1)

2014-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I still have those feature requests against base-files to change the shell prompt for users in group 544 to #. That's fine, but everything beyond that is strictly local setup. I'll implement it in profile.d then and everybody who needs it will have to pick it up from

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread D. Boland
Achim Gratz wrote: D. Boland writes: fakesu? I'd go with fakeid personally. But that's a joke that's probably too hard to get… so fakesu is also good. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: