From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:45:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e0cf0bf0803231145g350fc47ai6747e3a4067a7f3a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080323183420.0189116e@snowcone>
On 3/23/08, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Why? A simple USE flag should be enough, if set use caps, if not use
> > current.
>
>
> A user turns the use flag on, the ebuild creates files using caps
> rather than set*id, the package manager merges it by copying the file
> and the installed file ends up with no caps and no set*id bit.
File system attributes already supported for selinux. I also checked
this with capabilities and it works with portage.
Alon.
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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
2008-03-23 18:30 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2008-03-23 18:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-03-23 18:45 ` Alon Bar-Lev [this message]
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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