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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:27
Message-Id: 9e0cf0bf0803231145g350fc47ai6747e3a4067a7f3a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 3/23/08, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > > Why? A simple USE flag should be enough, if set use caps, if not use
3 > > current.
4 >
5 >
6 > A user turns the use flag on, the ebuild creates files using caps
7 > rather than set*id, the package manager merges it by copying the file
8 > and the installed file ends up with no caps and no set*id bit.
9
10 File system attributes already supported for selinux. I also checked
11 this with capabilities and it works with portage.
12
13 Alon.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [SECURITY] Minimizing the suid usage Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>