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| From: | Grant Goodyear <goodyea@×××××××.edu> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds & suid question | ||
| Date: | Fri, 10 May 2002 11:54:01 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1021049426.8236.11.camel@red.ces.clemson.edu | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] ebuilds & suid question by Alastair Nicol |
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| 1 | > what is the policy of gentoo for adding suid/guid bits in emerge scripts to |
| 2 | > fix problems like this? |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Um, we probably don't have a firm policy. Generally we try to avoid |
| 5 | setting suid/guid bits unless absolutely necessary. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | > Should i raise this as a bug for the samba emerge script?? |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Please do so. At a minimum we should have the ebuild print out a note |
| 10 | that smbmnt should be set suid if users need to mount windows shares. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -g2boojum- |