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From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff
Date: 6 Jul 2001 22:02:09 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9i5ch1$p8u$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200107021216.OAA512638.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl>

>More interestingly, it changes the operation of SAK in two ways:
>(a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0.

I think this is bad for security.

(I assume you meant euid 0, not ruid 0.  Using the real uid
for access control decisions is a very odd thing to do.)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-06 22:05 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
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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02 12:49 Andries.Brouwer
2001-07-02 13:03 Andries.Brouwer

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