From: matthew patton <pattonme@yahoo.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate from a setuid-root binary
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:04:46 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1044845531.2858991.1542636286779@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1044845531.2858991.1542636286779.ref@mail.yahoo.com
> program calls getpwuid() with the real user id of the calling user
maybe I missed a critical post explaining why it has to be, but that's a job for a trivial sudo specification line.
I can't think of any reason why sudo is not the answer to your problem, or frankly isn't always the answer.
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2018-11-19 14:04 ` matthew patton [this message]
2018-11-19 15:03 ` [linux-lvm] lvcreate from a setuid-root binary Christoph Pleger
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2018-11-22 16:41 ` matthew patton
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2018-11-19 16:05 ` matthew patton
2018-11-15 16:39 Christoph Pleger
2018-11-15 17:57 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2018-11-16 13:43 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-16 15:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-11-16 16:12 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-16 17:21 ` Roger Heflin
2018-11-16 15:41 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2018-11-21 9:56 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-21 9:58 ` Vladislav Bogdanov
2018-11-21 10:23 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-17 0:24 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2018-11-19 8:55 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-19 13:01 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2018-11-19 13:19 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2018-11-19 15:17 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-19 15:35 ` Christoph Pleger
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