From: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: selinux-refpolicy@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sddm issue and patch not for inclusion
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:32:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ypjlim7hi13j.fsf@defensec.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10144859.lm3J6uu7uN@liv> (Russell Coker's message of "Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:12:26 +1100")
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
> 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.
The pam decision is good in my view, i started doing that half a decade
ago.
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Dominick Grift
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-28 11:26 sddm issue and patch not for inclusion Russell Coker
2021-01-28 11:33 ` Dominick Grift
2021-01-28 11:36 ` Dominick Grift
2021-01-28 14:00 ` Russell Coker
2021-01-28 14:08 ` Dominick Grift
2021-01-28 14:12 ` Russell Coker
2021-01-28 14:32 ` Dominick Grift [this message]
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