From: Mike Westerhof <mike@mwester.net>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix busybox SUID support
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:43:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B87EC32.6030807@mwester.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266951776.18176.47.camel@trini-m4400>
Tom Rini wrote:
> I was about to just push this and I noticed that a number of
> distributions (SlugOS, Angstrom, Kaelios, micro) currently set
> FEATURE_SUID=y, but it's not actually install SUID. And since I recall
> some way-back-when's of "busybox SUID is dangerous / crap!", I thought
> it best to post the patch first and let folks speak up / ask me to drop
> FEATURE_SUID=y when I do this. So, here's the patch:
In the case of SlugOS, this was deliberate -- the thinking was that we
would let the user decide if they wanted to run busybox SUID after
installation. In retrospect, that actually led to more problems than
good, so this change gets an ACK from me (albeit late - sorry for the
delay!)
+1
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 19:02 [PATCH] Fix busybox SUID support Tom Rini
2010-02-23 19:51 ` Khem Raj
2010-02-23 20:14 ` Tom Rini
2010-02-23 20:23 ` Chris Larson
2010-02-23 21:37 ` Phil Blundell
2010-02-23 22:52 ` Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
2010-02-23 23:01 ` Tom Rini
2010-02-24 10:19 ` Marcin Juszkiewicz
2010-02-24 16:10 ` Tom Rini
2010-02-26 15:43 ` Mike Westerhof [this message]
2010-02-26 18:20 ` Koen Kooi
2010-02-26 20:21 ` C Michael Sundius
2010-02-26 22:26 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2010-02-26 22:42 ` Phil Blundell
2010-02-26 23:06 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
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