Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 2004-08-20 17:34:53 +0800 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:


> While I agree with you about setuid root executables,  I have
> seen people talking about wanting to run things as root.
> I have also found it convenient to have executables setuid to 
> an
> unprivileged user account, where I want different people to be 
> able
> to work with a common group account. ... this has the same 
> security
> issues except that exploits run with that accounts access 
> rather than root.

In my system root has no superpriviledges. And i have no setuid 
execs at all. I can even do rm -rf /* as root and it will be 
denied.