Hi, this bug came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1]
Am Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 02:26:35PM +0200 schrieb Patrik Schindler: > kernel interfaces for accessing raw sockets may only be accessed by root. > > As a fix, I recommend chmod'ing etherwake as suid, remove excess other-rights > and restrict usage to group members of whatever group you configure. The > latter is for reducing the possibility of security implications regarding > etherwake and suid. > > @Pierre: I can write a patch against postinst if you want. Let me know. If you would provide a patch I'd happily apply it and upload the package. Alternatively you might want to provide a MR to the repository which was migrated to Salsa[2]. Please ping me in both cases since I do neither watch this bug nor the repository. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/etherwake -- https://fam-tille.de