Re: Incorporating packaging manual in policy
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 complete I would like to keep the current packaging manual > around. > > I'll upload a new version with a changed maintainer field tomorrow > for the meantime. Be aware, though, that there currently doesn't exist a packaging-manual source package; it was generated from the debian-policy source package. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
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 though :) Because then files created by it would be owned by the user running the process, which might not be what you want. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > chattr +i ? -- Massimo Dal Zotto +--+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: see my www home page | +--+
Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner
> "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]>
