On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > * Martin Fluch said: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > > > > Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here: > > > xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about > > > suidmanager? > > > > The suid.conf file is used to track programs with special permissions, so > > that is easy to see, if they are changeing. > Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I > have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be > available only for the group 'screen', the tracertoute, fping, nmap and more > to be available only to the 'adm' group. The suid.conf file is a great way > to do such modifications, but not when they are reset everytime the package > in question re-registers itself. To get around it, I have just prepended to > the packages' names a letter M and every time suid.conf is modified by the > postinst script, I just move the M packages block to the end of the file and > run suidregister by hand. While it works, it is really annoying. > What do you think about slightly modifying the suidregister procedure NOT to > modify already existent entries? Or perhaps, as an alternative, provide a > means to localize the settings by including suid-local.conf file AFTER > processing of the suid.conf file? > > marek
Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ... Martin -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
