--- Marco Colombo <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You're right, for setuid, you can usually set it > (but how about /var/tmp > or /home partition mounted nosuid,nodev for extra nosuid not prevent suid bit from been set, it just not honored when such program is run. > security? Even more if > it's NFS mounted...) but it won't be retained on any > following copy. I'm > not sure you can create a suid executable owned by > you, list it as > %attr(root,-,-) in %files, and get it suid in the > rpm. I've never tried > to actually. And I'd call that a really bad > practice, it's much better > to put all the info in one place (%files) for > readability. I like set permission in the install section and in files use (-, owner, group), or usually just %deffattr(-,root,root) and no %attr. Sometimes 'make install' used for installion (not whole world build from rpms :( so i want my 'make install' as close as possible to install by rpm. But it's more matter of taste, i think. Valery __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html