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On 2016-12-13 08:20, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: |
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> > More generally, I'm wondering about set*id binaries in gentoo. If I |
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> > don't want/need the particular feature thus provided, can I simply |
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> > turn off the set*id bit? |
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> Most of the time packages will not work correctly (as defined by |
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> upstream) and will require you to run them as root explicitly |
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> (e.g. through sudo). |
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Returning to the special case of man-db package, both man and mandb seem |
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to run fine as normal non-suid binaries (after I also changed the perms |
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on /var/cache/man to the normal root:root, 644/755). |
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I reported the bug: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602588 |
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