Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default

On 4/9/13 10:15 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i plan on updating the latest glibc to add USE=suid.  in pkg_preinst and
> ROOT==/, the ebuild will read /proc/mounts for a devpts line with gid=5.  if
> it doesn't find one, i'll have it call `die`.  if the bsd pty scenario wasn't
> long dead, and the devpts option didn't have gid=/mode= options, then it might
> be reasonable to have it warn and do `chmod +s`.  but i can't think of any
> legitimate reasons for not using devpts & mounting it correctly.  this is the
> right answer even in the embedded world.

+1

I have it disabled already on some of my systems using suidctl.

I was going to suggest making that change some time ago - great to hear
it's being done. Thanks for working on this!

Paweł