Re: Incorporating packaging manual in policy

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
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

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
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 t

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> 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? C

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Brian May
> "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]>