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Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem



> > Here is the way Debian installs cdrecord
> >
> > -rws--x---    1 root     cdrom        177k Apr  9  2002 /usr/bin/cdrecord
>
> The package I see in unstable installs as -rwsr-xr-- if you're running
> setuid, which is much more sensible (there's a comment in the Debian
> policy manual noting that there's no point making binaries unreadable
> since people can always just fetch them from the freely available
> packages).
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

Yes, I have that now too. And false security is no security at all...

David



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