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Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?)
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?) |
Date: |
11 May 2002 17:56:26 -0700 |
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Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> > Oh this is horrible. Sigh. However, in the normal case, the ids
> > don't change. Is there a security reason we should not allow the user
> > to decide for themselves?
>
> "Allow the user to decide for themselves" does not have a precise meaning
> to me in this context. Please specify.
Sorry. I meant to have the library do the change itself in execve
when it's needed (since usually it's a nop) instead of expecting the
exec server to do it.
But there might be a security reason why we have to force the change
to be made. But I can't possibly see what that would be.
Thomas
- saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/10
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/10
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Roland McGrath, 2002/05/11
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/11
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Roland McGrath, 2002/05/11
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?),
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <=
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Roland McGrath, 2002/05/11
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/12
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/12
- Re: saved IDs and exec (standard violation?), Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/12