From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Location of hard coded IA32 libraries
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:26:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805150@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805123@msgid-missing>
>>>>> "Don" = Don Dugger <n0ano@valinux.com> writes:
Don> That's a pretty stong argument for not using the environment
Don> variable approach. If we go with using a hard coded path, like
Don> `/usr/ia32', then there is no security hole. This just becomes
Don> another tree that has to have protected files the same way `/'
Don> needs protected files.
I don't see the problem for environment variables either, LD_IA32_PATH
should just be treated like LD_LIBRARY_PATH and do magic for suid
binaries. On the other hand if the sysadmin allows you to overwrite
/usr/ia32/lib then you are in the same situation as if the user can
overwrite /usr/lib ;-)
Cheers
Jes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-10 9:26 UTC|newest]
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2001-09-05 17:28 [Linux-ia64] Location of hard coded IA32 libraries Don Dugger
2001-09-10 9:26 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
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