Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

[Jon Ciesla <limburgher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Mattia Verga <mattia.verga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I saw the changes in packaging guidelines related to PIE:
>
> If your package meets the following criteria you MUST enable the PIE
> compiler flags:
>
> Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started and keep
> running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand and quit on idle.
>
> Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities.
>
> Your package runs as root.
>
> I maintain kde-partitionmanager and I wonder if I should apply PIE to that.
> At startup it calls itself with sudo: to work properly it must run as root,
> but it can be started also as normal user. Am I correct if I think it fits
> in the third assumption above?

I would say yes.

-J

> Thank you.
> Mattia
>
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