update ikiwiki-update-wikilist docs to suggest putting it in /etc/sudoers

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / security.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn
index d723826722fcbd558445f08f06b5417563bb1f15..afefd1bc300eb4d18811c42f72931d9dfd7b7860 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/security.mdwn
+++ b/doc/security.mdwn
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ runs ikiwiki to update a given wiki. The wrapper can in turn be made suid,
 for example to be used in a [[post-commit]] hook by people who cannot write
 to the html pages, etc.
 
-If the wrapper script is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be
+If the wrapper program is made suid, then any bugs in this wrapper would be
 security holes. The wrapper is written as securely as I know how, is based
 on code that has a history of security use long before ikiwiki, and there's
 been no problem yet.
@@ -484,10 +484,10 @@ for information disclosure via symlinks. ([[!cve CVE-2011-1408]])
 
 This hole was discovered on 8 June 2011 and fixed the same day with
 the release of ikiwiki 3.20110608. Note that the fix is dependant on
-a version of su that has a similar hole fixed; [[!debbug 628843]]
-tracks fixing the hole in Debian's su. An upgrade is a must for any
-sites that have `ikiwiki-update-wikilist` installed suid (not the default),
-and whose admins run `ikiwiki-mass-rebuild`.
+a version of su that has a similar hole fixed. Version 4.1.5 of the shadow
+package contains the fixed su; [[!debbug 628843]] tracks fixing the hole in
+Debian. An upgrade is a must for any sites that have `ikiwiki-update-wikilist`
+installed suid (not the default), and whose admins run `ikiwiki-mass-rebuild`.
 
 ## javascript insertion via meta tags