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>>>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2018, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> System executables that are not owned by root pose a security |
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> risk. The owner of the executable is free to modify it at any time; |
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> so, for example, he can change a daemon's behavior to make it |
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> malicious before the next time the service is started (usually by |
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> root). |
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> On a "normal" system, there is no good reason why the superuser should |
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> not own every system executable. This commit adds a new install-time |
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> check that reports any such binaries with a QA warning. To avoid false |
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> positives, non-"normal" systems (like prefix) are skipped at the moment. |
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Shouldn't this check for setuid binaries like /usr/bin/mandb (which is |
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owned by man:man)? I think these are legitimate usage case. |
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Ulrich |
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