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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:39:44 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net> |
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| And there are probably just as many situations when the RESTRICT is |
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| abused. I can vaguely recall only one such example: either vpopmail |
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| or courier-imap refuse to compile *not* as root which is silly. |
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If that's really the case, start filing QA bugs. Unless, of course, |
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there's a non-silly reason for it. |
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| Anyway, what is userpriv? Just a useless safety feature? Why have it |
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| at all? |
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It's not useless. It's another way of protecting against accidental |
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screwups. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/ |
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