On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:13:30AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 07:36 +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit : > [about suid bits] > > My personal preference would be for the maintainer to just take a stand, set > > it or not, and let people who actually know what's going on to use > > dpkg-statoverride to fix the problem to their satisfaction. (This actually > > also applies to man-db and cdrecord, as it happens, but there's a lot of > > inertia to overcome there). > > In that case, does it make sense to prompt the admin once from the > postinst script with a message such as: > "Warning: <such file> from <such package> installed with suid bit. If > this is unacceptable at your site, use dpkg-statoverride to clear this > bit." ?
Dear ghods no. For all the reasons previously mentioned, and more. - Matt
