Bug 533378

Summary:	net-misc/tlsdate should install tlsdate tlsdated into /usr/sbin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Roessner <c>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Roessner 2014-12-23 09:49:40 UTC

At least in version 0.0.6, tlsdate and tlsdated are installed into /usr/bin.

I think they should be in /usr/sbin, as both programs require root privileges to operate. See ntpdate and ntpd for example.

Comment 1 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2015-01-03 00:33:06 UTC

I'm not 100% sure but I think this is intentional by upstream. tlsdate and tlsdate-helper are run as unprivileged users by tlsdated.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-01-29 20:51:44 UTC

right, this is what upstream has decided.  even that said, the argument for sbin-vs-bin is kind of pointless as the kernel invests more in namespaces and privilege dropping.