Re: Please let me know why there are so many suid programs and even dirs?

dummy@example.com (chris2be8) — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:37:14 +0000

Directories like /var/local/ and /var/mail/ are OK, the "s" just means that newly created files and subdirectories in them will have the same group as they do.

Programs like sudo and passwd do need to run as root. So they are the ones you need to worry about.

Chris

Please let me know why there are so many suid programs and even dirs?

dummy@example.com (bimon) — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:42:39 +0000

Though most likely it is how Debian distro works. Is there any way to reduce this amount of suids without chmod?

/var/local
/var/mail
/opt/brave.com/brave/brave-sandbox
/usr/bin/ssh-agent
/usr/bin/bsd-write
/usr/bin/dotlockfile
/usr/bin/newgrp
/usr/bin/chage
/usr/bin/expiry
/usr/bin/crontab
/usr/bin/gpasswd
/usr/bin/dotlock.mailutils
/usr/bin/pkexec
/usr/bin/bwrap
/usr/bin/chfn
/usr/bin/passwd
/usr/bin/sudo
/usr/bin/wall
/usr/bin/chsh
/usr/lib/mc/cons.saver
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/eject/dmcrypt-get-device
/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.wrap
/usr/lib/openssh/ssh-keysign
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/utempter/utempter
/usr/lib/pidgin-blinklight/blinklight-fixperm
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
/usr/local/lib/python2.7
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
/usr/local/lib/python3.7
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages
/usr/local/share/sgml
/usr/local/share/sgml/declaration
/usr/local/share/sgml/misc
/usr/local/share/sgml/entities
/usr/local/share/sgml/dtd
/usr/local/share/sgml/stylesheet
/usr/local/share/fonts
/usr/local/share/texmf
/bin/ping6
/bin/su
/bin/mount
/bin/umount
/bin/ping
/bin/fusermount
/bin/ntfs-3g
/sbin/unix_chkpwd

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Re: Please let me know why there are so many suid programs and even dirs?

Please let me know why there are so many suid programs and even dirs?