[csw-maintainers] gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Thu Jul 9 12:22:18 CEST 2009


On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, rupert THURNER<rupert at opencsw.org> wrote:
> when doing the mercurial tests, there is a warning.
>
> gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
>  --> http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html#q6.1
>
> the faq says that it should be installed with setuid root. is this
> deliberately different on opencsw?

Routing to Mike Watters, the gnupg package maintainer.

It would be a relatively simple change:

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- Makefile    (revision 5052)
+++ Makefile    (working copy)
@@ -40,4 +40,8 @@

 TEST_TARGET = check

+PROTOTYPE_FILTER  = awk ' \
+    $$$$3 ~ /\/opt\/csw\/bin\/gpg$$$$/ { $$$$4 = "4755" } \
+    { print }'
+
 include gar/category.mk

Maciej



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