On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 05:17:49PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Today, only write and wall seem to get SUID/SGID privileges during
> "make install". What about others?
mount, umount
> E.g. login and su would deserve
- for login(1) is it unnecessary, it's executed by getty ant it runs
with root perms.
- for su(1) is it necessary, fixed. Thanks ;-)
> to be `chmod u+s`-ed, right?
> Or is this a task of the distributions?
It's definitely better if distributions somehow control all the stuff
from upstreams -- blindly use result from "make install" is a bad idea.
For example in rpm is special %files section for this purpose.
Trust, but verify :-)
Karel
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