tags 370045 + confirmed thanks On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:55:57PM +0200, Sebastian Bremicker wrote: > Package: netselect > Version: 0.3.ds1-7 > Severity: normal > > > Hi, > > although it asked kindly to set permissions to suid root (see below), it does > not do so: > > cerebrum:/home/sebrem# ls -la /usr/bin/netselect* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11876 2006-05-13 01:34 /usr/bin/netselect > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6476 2006-05-13 01:14 /usr/bin/netselect-apt > > I don't get an error when running netselect.postinst seperatly but it does not > do it.
ha-ha! looks like it is a bug in chown (Cc'ing coreutils maintainers): $ /bin/chmod u=rwxs,go=rx /usr/bin/netselect $ ls -la /usr/bin/netselect -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 11984 2006-05-13 01:14 /usr/bin/netselect $ /bin/chown root:root /usr/bin/netselect -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11984 2006-05-13 01:14 /usr/bin/netselect for now I'm going to fix it by swapping the two lines in the postinst thanks for your report, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. -- Mark Twain
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