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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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Ref |
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[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/420969/ |
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[2] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/226948 |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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