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On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> A couple of days ago, bonsaikitten (Patrick), kerframil (Kerin Millar) |
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> and myself were talking about other distros moving away from setuid |
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> binaries towards caps. Openwall and Fedora are now setuid-less [1]. |
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> Some googling showed that Constanze has done quite a bit of work in the |
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> area and that there was a consensus to include functions to set caps |
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> within portage [2]. I don't know what, if anything has been done since |
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> then, but I'd like to lend my support. |
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One problem that came up was that a lot of people use tmpfs for |
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/var/tmp/portage, and tmpfs doesn't support xattrs which are needed |
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for setting caps. |
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Linux 3.0 has added support for xattrs with tmpfs (the redhat folks |
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did the work, afaik), so that problem is partly solved now. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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