On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:14:41 -0700 Felix Lechner
wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Josh Triplett wrote:
> >
> > Many packages still
> > unconditionally chown directories to root:staff, or chmod directories to
> > 2755.
>
> What is the issue with setting the group id, please?
There's a
Hi Josh,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Josh Triplett wrote:
>
> Many packages still
> unconditionally chown directories to root:staff, or chmod directories to
> 2755.
What is the issue with setting the group id, please? Isn't it a common
paradigm for daemons?
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 03:28:41PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Policy version 4.1.4, in April 2018, states that /usr/local and
> > subdirectories
> > should only have group "staff" if /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local exists,
> > and
Hi Josh,
> Policy version 4.1.4, in April 2018, states that /usr/local and subdirectories
> should only have group "staff" if /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local exists,
> and otherwise they should have group "root". Many packages still
> unconditionally chown directories to root:staff, or chmod
Hi all,
> What is an acceptable way to identify such scripts? Would it be a
> successful 'grep root[:.]staff', followed by an unsuccessful 'grep
> staff-group-for-usr-local'?
Josh, another way to help answer this might be to link to some
offending packages if you have them handy.
Regards,
--
Hi Josh,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Josh Triplett wrote:
>
> Policy version 4.1.4, in April 2018, states that /usr/local and subdirectories
> should only have group "staff" if /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local exists,
> and otherwise they should have group "root". Many packages still
>
Package: lintian
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Policy version 4.1.4, in April 2018, states that /usr/local and subdirectories
should only have group "staff" if /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local exists,
and otherwise they should have group "root". Many packages still
unconditionally chown
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