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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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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 18:45 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
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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