On Tue, 8 May 2007 20:50:13 +0200 (CEST), pizzapie linuxanchovies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Thanks to everyone who replied with ideas about my post. Let me give > quick replies to the questions you asked me: > Manoj--yes, dpkg is in /usr/bin, and is in the user's path, but no > normal user has execute access to dpkg: $ ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg > -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 174040 May 26 2005 /usr/bin/dpkg I temporarily > removed bastille from my system, thinking maybe that changed > permissions on dpkg, but that didn't help. Also, I tried > dpkg-statoverride --list, but found no overrides on the permissions of > dpkg. So I'm now reasonably sure Debian comes with only root having > access to dpkg, despite it being in /usr/bin. Nope. However, it is reasonably easy to get reasonably sure: __> ll /usr/bin/dpkg 332 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 332556 2007-05-08 10:39 /usr/bin/dpkg __> dpkg-deb --contents dpkg_1.14.1_i386.deb | grep /usr/bin drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-05-08 10:39 ./usr/bin/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 332556 2007-05-08 10:39 ./usr/bin/dpkg -rwxr-xr-x root/root 73252 2007-05-08 10:39 ./usr/bin/dpkg-query -rwxr-xr-x root/root 192332 2007-05-08 10:39 ./usr/bin/dpkg-deb -rwxr-xr-x root/root 36556 2007-05-08 10:39 ./usr/bin/dpkg-split > Andrew (and anyone else who can do a make-kpkg under a non-root > account)--what permissions do YOU see when you say ls -l > /usr/bin/root? __> ll /usr/bin/root ls: /usr/bin/root: No such file or directory I have never ever run make-kpkg as root. I don't think you should either. Unless you know something I don't? manoj -- Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. 29 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]