I think setgid in the scripts is likely the way to do it (IANADD,Yet) -- would a Suggest: suidmanager
Is suggesting the suidmanager package a good solution? It looks nice.. :) On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 06:43:59PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > I am involved in Debianizing a program (I am not the listed maintainer of > it, simply because the registration is closed), and have struck a problem. > > The program, jwhois (should be in the distribution now), has been changed so > that it will keep a cache of previous lookups. To get this to work, the > binary need to be setgid some group. Now I wonder how this should be > handled, should the binary be setgid in the .deb file, or should that be set > in the installation scripts? Can it be created automatically by debhelper > rules? Which group can I use? > > -- > \\// > Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
