On Sat, Dec 23, 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
First, /var/tmp/mach itself is currently shipped in the package (.deb)
itself; it serves as the base directory to copy over RPM files.
Copy over RPM files from where?
mach can be used to 1) create chroots and 2) build RPM
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
I don't know how mach operates precisely, would you care to elaborate how and
when does it use /var/tmp/mach/? What files are created there? What control
does the user have on the content or naming of those files?
First,
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:20:12AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
I don't know how mach operates precisely, would you care to elaborate how
and
when does it use /var/tmp/mach/? What files are created there? What control
does the user
Hi there,
mach is a tool to create chroot of RPM based distros and to build RPM
packages. It has a SUID root wrapper which is only runnable by members
of the mach group. My attention was tickled by this lintian warning:
E: mach: dir-or-file-in-tmp var/tmp/mach/
I've mirrored
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:20PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
Would someone be so kind to either correct me or to help me word why
this is a bad idea?
This is a bad idea because, if mach creates (on installation)
/var/tmp/mach/something, and a
rogue user creates (before installation)
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