8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
9:40 p.m.
"VK" == Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> writes:
"BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
VK> BSD generally does a nightly scan for setuid file changes.
VK> Setgid directories also come up on the scan when they change,
VK> which happens a lot with mailing list archives.
VK> I just manually un-setgid them... but I have to temporarily
VK> setgid the root directory again when I re-install the
VK> software.
VK> It would be nice if configure had an option with
VK> --no-setgid-dirs to turn off this "feature".Would it be enough if you could just skip the chmod g+s on the installation of all the subdirs? I could paramaterize that step in the Makefile, so that you could do the following:
% make DIRSETGID=: install
-Barry