On 19:49 Thu 03 Apr , C. Brewer wrote:
> > The only issue is that lft needs to be suid to work for non-root, and
> > I've not yet dealt with that in the ebuild....
> >
> > -JimC
>
> I know this is off the thread a bit,but you can chmod right in the ebuild..
> chmod 2755 ${D}/usr/bin/lft
> and that'll fix up the perms before the merge:)
>
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>
I don't know what the actual policy is, but the links ebuild does the
following instead of making it suid.
einfo "You had the svga USE flag enabled, but for security reasons"
einfo "the links2 binary is NOT setuid by default. In oder to"
einfo "enable links2 to work in SVGA, please change the permissions"
einfo "of /usr/bin/links2 to enable suid."
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