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| From: | Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:42:27 | ||
| Message-Id: | hqim6v$ggd$1@dough.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions? by Jonathan |
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| 1 | On 18/04/2010 02:02, Jonathan wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | [snip] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | > 53 SUID or GUID programs on my system! |
| 6 | > Why does cdrecord have SUID set? |
| 7 | > "/dev/sr0" is in the cdrom group with rw set so |
| 8 | > SUID should not be needed in the first place. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Device node permissions are not the concern. If I recall correctly, it |
| 11 | is so that it may (a) call mlockall() (b) employ the SCHED_RR (realtime) |
| 12 | scheduling policy. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Cheers, |
| 15 | |
| 16 | --Kerin |