On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:06:27PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Is it possible to ask for a summary of the change in procedure? If it is OK
> to setgid in the package, then why was dh_suidregister being used in the first
> place?
It was only intended for cases where the default was one thing but
where individual sysadmins might want to change the default. But in
cases where the only meaningful installation was suid or sgid (for
example, /bin/su), the deb always held a suid or sgid binary.
Examples of the first case include debpkg, a potentially suid-root
wrapper for dpkg. But this is really dangerous, so the default is
non-suid, but the sysadmin could choose to change it if desired.
Julian
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