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From: tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:55:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201204095500.7a237277@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccb1195c-72be-6fbc-342d-656ecada509b@gmail.com>

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On 2020-12-03 19:40-0600 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner. 
> There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for
> security reasons.  I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed.
> I guess that is the default for openrc.  Someone mentioned
> systemd-tmpfiles as a alternative that doesn't have the same security
> problems.  My question is, is this big enough a problem to switch or
> is it safe enough for us to use the same we have been?  It sounds
> like a rather rare problem.  Maybe even only during boot up.  I'm not
> 100% sure what it does or anything really.  I guess that's why I
> con't make sense of switching or not since I'm not sure what the
> package does or how serious the security problem is.

From what I could gather, opentmpfiles is only vulnerable when an
attacker is able to put a config file into /etc/tmpfiles.d/, so they
have to be already root.
Nevertheless I switched to systemd-tmpfiles and it just works and
doesn't pull any other systemd-stuff in.

I don't think it really matters which one you use.

Kind regards, tastytea

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-04  1:40 [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way Dale
2020-12-04  2:06 ` Kusoneko
2020-12-04  7:44   ` Dale
2020-12-04  2:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  2:22   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  6:44   ` Dale
2020-12-04 14:23     ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04 17:02       ` Dale
2020-12-05 13:43         ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-06  6:40           ` Dale
2020-12-04 10:47   ` Michael
2020-12-04 14:07     ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  8:55 ` tastytea [this message]
2020-12-04 14:07   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  9:09 ` antlists
2020-12-04 10:06   ` Dale
2020-12-04 10:24   ` Michael
2020-12-07  4:24   ` Dale
2020-12-07 11:39     ` Wols Lists
2020-12-07 20:32       ` Dale
2020-12-06  7:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 10:45   ` Michael
2020-12-06 12:37     ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-06 12:53       ` Arve Barsnes
2020-12-06 12:54       ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-06 13:01         ` antlists
2020-12-06 13:45           ` Michael
2020-12-06 15:13             ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-06 16:25     ` Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 12:55   ` antlists
2020-12-06 17:06     ` Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 13:29   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-06 16:57     ` Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 21:44       ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-07 20:41         ` Martin Vaeth

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