Have you audited the code to be sure that it does not harm anyone running it as root?
But I honour your request anyway, next version will be disabled. g. On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:58:29 +0200 Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: elinks > Version: 0.10.4-1 > Severity: important > > Latest Debian ELinks build gives me: > > Permission to run this program as root user was disabled at compile > time. > > It seems like someone had this awful idea to compile Debian ELinks build > with --enable-no-root. Please either remove this, or add something like > > "This is Debian's fault. Get your own ELinks from > http://elinks.or.cz/ to fix the issue." > > to the message, so that we stop getting bands of unhappy users hitting > us, likely to get worse when it bubbles through to testing. > > I think it makes ELinks unusable to a large degree in its area. I have > let the --enable-no-root switch to go in in the upstream mainly since I > thought that noone sane who knows what is he doing will enable it. > Apparently, I was wrong. :/ > > Thanks, > > -- > Petr "Pasky" Baudis > Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ > C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
