From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:26:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323182645.76fc5c86@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e0cf0bf0803231121t75eb67abu60f17f54086dd32@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:21:29 +0200
"Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@gentoo.org> wrote:
> linux-2.6.24 supports file based capabilities via:
> CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
>
> This will provide more secured installation for users with a little
> effort, less usage of root user.
>
> What do you think?
Needs package manager support. Effectively this requires an EAPI bump,
since ebuilds need to know whether they can rely upon caps being
preserved across a merge or whether they have to degrade to a setuid
bit.
Package manager support shouldn't be very hard, and there just needs to
be a minimal interface for it, so an EAPI proposal shouldn't be tricky
(and if there's call for it, you could ask for EAPI 2 being EAPI 1 +
file caps).
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 18:21 [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage Alon Bar-Lev
2008-03-23 18:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-03-23 18:30 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2008-03-23 18:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-03-23 18:45 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2008-03-23 22:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-01 10:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-03-24 11:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-03-24 12:27 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2008-03-24 13:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-03-24 13:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-03-24 13:55 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2008-08-05 8:51 ` Bruno Prémont
2008-08-05 8:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-01-01 12:23 ` Bruno
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