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Message-ID: <20140610232506.7f9558c2@ncopa-laptop>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:25:06 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@...inelinux.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 1.0.x branch
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:03:56 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> FYI you can emulate the usefulness of suid, without the danger, by
> having a daemon on a unix socket that you connect to which provides
> the functionality. This is a vastly superior design because there is
> exactly one input channel to the code running with elevated privileges
> (the socket) as opposed to unboundedly many (environment, open fds,
> resource limits, working directory, priority, signal mask and
> dispositions, cpu affinity, ... and whatever else the kernel folks add
> in the future).
You probably knew but this is what OpenBSD does instead of suid + PAM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication
I have always liked this approach.
-nc
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