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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:29:18
Message-Id: 200701161325.44980.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT) by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Friday 12 January 2007 22:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > It has nothing to do with the sandbox. It's because /usr/games/lib
3 > isn't readable to people outside the "games" group.
4
5 Isn't that a rather silly restriction. What is there in /usr/games/lib that
6 may not be seen by people outside the group? The shared data shouldn't be.
7 The binaries don't live there either, and could be restricted themselves.
8 This seems to be an arbitrary restriction of the "shoot yourself in the foot"
9 kind.
10
11 Paul
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14 Paul de Vrieze
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