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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:05:09 -0500
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Subject: Re: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Eric, let me specifically point out a 'disable setuid-root'
> problem on linux: root still owns most of the system even when
> it's not privileged. ?So does "disable setuid-root" mean
> we don't allow exec of setuid-root binaries at all, or that
> we don't setuid to root, or that we just don't raise privileges
> for setuid-root?

I, for one, think it would be best to handle it exactly like the
nosuid mount option - that is, pretend the file doesn't have any
setuid bits set. There's no reason to deny execution; if the process
would otherwise be able to execute it, it can also copy the file to
make a non-suid version and execute that instead. And some programs
can operate with reduced function without setuid. For example, screen
comes to mind; it needs root to share screen sessions between multiple
users, but can operate for a single user just fine without root, and
indeed the latter is usually the default configuration.
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