Re: Incorporating packaging manual in policy

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:00:07AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Indeed. I've started writing a dpkg reference manual that will replace the packaging manual. It's going to be a completely new document though that includes the info from the packaging manual, and until I have that reasonably

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:12:00PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: Then again, if the software can run as a non-root user and be suid to that user, I can't think of any good reason why it couldn't just be sgid to some group without any users in it instead. Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Argh, egg on face: linux lets the owner of a file modify it even if it is mode 444 and in a directory they do not own. Yuck! Is this standard unix semantics? It sucks. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Brian May
Massimo == Massimo Dal Zotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Massimo chattr +i ? Interesting point. Programs/packages shouldn't rely on it working all the time though, as I doubt it is (yet) supported on NFS, resierfs, Hurd, etc. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]