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diff --git a/scripts/debpkg.1 b/scripts/debpkg.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77df022 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/debpkg.1 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.TH DEBPKG 1 "Debian Utilities" "DEBIAN" \" -*- nroff -*- +.SH NAME +debpkg \- wrapper for dpkg +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBdebpkg\fP \fIdpkg-options\fP +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBdebpkg\fR simply invokes \fBdpkg\fP(1) but first becomes superuser +so that \fBdpkg\fP is able to install and remove packages. It also +cleans the environment and resets PATH to a sane default: +"/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11" so that local versions of +programs are not run by accident. +.SH REQUIREMENTS +\fBdebpkg\fP must be given superuser privileges in some way to +function properly. \fBAccess to debpkg with those privileges is the +same as having superuser access to your machine.\fP \fBdebpkg\fP will +abort if it finds that it neither being run by root nor setuid root. +.PP +The \fBdevscripts\fR package has been designed to allow \fBdebpkg\fR +to be made setuid root. This works by using a compiled wrapper +script, which means that \fBsuidperl\fR is not required. See +\fBdpkg-statoverride\fR(8) if you wish to make this program setuid +root. \fBsudo\fR or \fBsuper\fR could also conceivably be used. +.SH AUTHOR +Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>; minor modifications made by +Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>. |