On 2012-02-23 07:19:12 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Vincent Lefevre] > > The man page, the FAQ and the README file say nothing about this. I > > don't think this is intentional. Perhaps pchar should be setuid or > > setgid something... > > It is intentional that the program need root privileges. This is why > the binary is in /usr/sbin/ and not in /usr/bin/.
But not all programs in /usr/sbin (or /sbin) need root privileges in every case, e.g. lpc and ntpdate (in /usr/sbin), and ifconfig and route (in /sbin). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
