SUID binaries in the repo

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 16:01:40 UTC 2007


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:46:55 +0200
Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:

> rpmlint already points out suid files. I don't think that a specific
> guideline is needed, a word of caution would be nice. We should expect
> maintainers to know what they are doing when packaging suid stuff.
> I personally maintain pmount which is, I hope, rightfully suid.

If we want somebody to explicitly examine all suid instances they yes,
we do need a guideline.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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