From: Hua Zhong <huaz@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, andrewm@uow.edu.au,
torvalds@transmeta.com, tytso@mit.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:10:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107021910.PAA27951@razor.cs.columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jul 2001 13:33:01 BST." <E15H2sv-0005pG-00@the-village.bc.nu>
-> From Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> :
> > (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0.
> > Ted, any objections?
>
> That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse
> you into doing something ?
a setuid app only changes euid, doesn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-02 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-02 12:16 [PATCH] more SAK stuff Andries.Brouwer
2001-07-02 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 19:10 ` Hua Zhong [this message]
2001-07-03 22:00 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-06 1:45 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-06 10:04 ` The SUID bit (was Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff) Rob Landley
2001-07-06 15:17 ` Doug McNaught
2001-07-06 15:44 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-02 18:57 ` [PATCH] more SAK stuff Kain
2001-07-06 22:02 ` David Wagner
2001-07-02 12:49 Andries.Brouwer
2001-07-02 13:03 Andries.Brouwer
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