Bug#617938: wrong ownership of /var/log/news/ and /etc/news/

2012-07-04 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
reassign 617938 debian-polic severity 617938 normal thanks On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:25:58PM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > Package: slrn > Version: 1.0.0~pre16-1 > Severity: critical > > Directories /var/log/news/ and /etc/news/ have weird ownership - > news:news. Some deb scripts use these di

Bug#617938: wrong ownership of /var/log/news/ and /etc/news/

2012-02-19 Thread manuk7
Hello, As mentioned in the Ubuntu bug report, this behavior seems in accordance with the Debian Policy : http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch12.en.html#s12.1.12.1 I'm not really convinced we may considered that as a bug, however it should be reported to the Debian Policy (i

Bug#617938: wrong ownership of /var/log/news/ and /etc/news/

2011-03-12 Thread Vasiliy Kulikov
Package: slrn Version: 1.0.0~pre16-1 Severity: critical Directories /var/log/news/ and /etc/news/ have weird ownership - news:news. Some deb scripts use these directories as trusted and write to files located there, e.g. like this (from slrnpull.postinst): echo "$RET" > /etc/news/server These di