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From:   Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To:     Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
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Subject: Re: sddm issue and patch not for inclusion
Date:   Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:12:26 +1100
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On Friday, 29 January 2021 1:08:56 AM AEDT Dominick Grift wrote:
> > That's a design decision.  One could make a convincing argument that it's
> > a
> > good decision.
> 
> Not sure whether doing text-relocation on a file you created yourself is
> a good decision. From a security perspective does not seem like very
> good thing to along, The more because xdm is shared between various
> desktop managers.

Oh yes, execmod is bad.  I thought your comment was about the use of PAM.

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