Re: make install: some SUID-root programs?

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 05:17:49PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>  Today, only write and wall seem to get SUID/SGID privileges during
> "make install". What about others?

 mount, umount

> E.g. login and su would deserve

 - for login(1) is it unnecessary, it's executed by getty ant it runs
   with root perms.

 - for su(1) is it necessary, fixed. Thanks ;-)

> to be `chmod u+s`-ed, right?
> Or is this a task of the distributions?

It's definitely better if distributions somehow control all the stuff
from upstreams -- blindly use result from "make install" is a bad idea.
For example in rpm is special %files section for this purpose.

Trust, but verify :-)

    Karel

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