[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#689490: openssl: using openssl from maintainer scripts creates /root/.rnd

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-10-03 18:05, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:43:48AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> I think this is a FHS violation, dropping anything in root's HOME.
>> Wouldn't /var/lib/openssl/rnd be a more appropriate place?
> 
> Oh, you want random users to write to root's .rnd file?  That sounds
> like a good idea.

Who said something about making that world writable?
And last time I checked, /usr/bin/openssl was not setuid root.

Andreas