W setuid-gid-binary

All reports of setuid-gid-binary for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

The file is tagged SETUID and SETGID. In some cases this is intentional, but in other cases this is a bug. If this is intentional, please add a lintian override to document this fact.

Severity: normal, Certainty: possible

Check: files, Type: binary, udeb

Evolution of the setuid-gid-binary Lintian tag over the past 366 days:

The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.

at 3.1.13-2 (binary)

usr/bin/at 6755 daemon/daemon

lpr 1:2008.05.17+nmu1 (binary)

usr/bin/lpq 6755 root/lp
usr/bin/lpr 6755 root/lp
usr/bin/lprm 6755 root/lp

orville-write 2.55-2.3 (binary) overridden

O usr/bin/mesg 6755 root/tty
O usr/bin/orville-write 6755 root/tty

procmail 3.22-20 (binary) overridden

O usr/bin/procmail 6755 root/mail

uucp 1.07-20 (binary) overridden

O usr/lib/uucp/uucico 6755 uucp/dialout
O usr/sbin/uuxqt 6755 uucp/uucp

virtualbox 4.2.10-dfsg-1 (binary) overridden

O usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless 6755 root/root
O usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl 6755 root/root
O usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP 6755 root/root
O usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL 6755 root/root

virtualbox-qt 4.2.10-dfsg-1 (binary) overridden

O usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox 6755 root/root

xserver-xorg 1:7.7+3 (binary) overridden

O usr/bin/X 6755 root/root