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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:15:31 +1100
From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:31:08PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> I have to wonder, just how many setuid executables do people have?

i've run perfectly sane webservers with suid only on /bin/su.  a few
errors are spat out, but things tend to work.  in all honesty i'm yet to
see many other uses for it in a server-admin'd-by-small-group-of-people
situation, except perhaps for sendmail.

al's idea with the mount flags did perk up the old ears though, i would
like to see this done.

j.

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