Bug 19897

Summary:	gnupg is not suid-root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bradley <bbaetz>
Component:	gnupg	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	dbaron, dr
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Description Bradley 2000-10-27 04:00:38 UTC

The latest errata gnupg (gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x), is not suid. gnupg should be
suid so that mlock will work.

Currently, it displays an annoying: "gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!"
error whenever its run. (I know I can turn this off with an option, but its
not the default)

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-10-30 20:57:12 UTC

This is done on purpose in an attempt to reduce the number of setuid
applications on the system.  When the kernel offers capabilities, we'll revisit
this.

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-01-18 18:10:49 UTC

*** Bug 51913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-01-18 21:43:42 UTC

*** Bug 51913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***