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

Mike Watters mwatters at opencsw.org
Thu Jul 9 23:13:18 CEST 2009


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Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
> 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

I will make the change the next time I release the package.
please file a feature request bug so I don't forget about it ;-}



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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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