setuid Gnome Applet (Link-Monitor-Applet)

Sam Morris sam at robots.org.uk
Mon Feb 7 13:18:46 CST 2005


Aaron Lake wrote:
> Post install (postinst) I've set `chmod u
> +s /usr/bin/link-monitor-applet` which is generally not good practice,
> nor is having many setuid binaries.

You should probably do this with dpkg-statoverride so that dpkg applies 
the permissions itself.

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