From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: qingtao.cao@windriver.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 9/9] tinylogin: remove recipe
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:59:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371466771.6580.14.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371464893.20823.100.camel@ted>
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 11:28 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> The thinking is therefore we should therefore create a replacement for
> it from busybox. People are nervous about making busybox entirely SUID
> but having some small subset of it seems like a reasonable compromise.
The difficulty with this in the past has always been that the way
busybox is structured makes it quite difficult to tell which parts of
the code might actually end up being executed in setuid context. But
maybe that situation has improved now, I dunno.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-17 5:49 [PATCH V2 0/9] busybox miscellaneous fixes Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 1/9] busybox: remove the postinst part of the recipe Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 17:52 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-06-18 1:37 ` ChenQi
2013-06-18 12:06 ` Otavio Salvador
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 2/9] busybox: add support for CONFIG_FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 3/9] busybox: add a config fragment to enable login utilities Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 4/9] busybox: enable to list suid and non-suid app configs Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 5/9] busybox: add the ability to split the busybox binary Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 6/9] packagegroup-core-boot: use busybox as the default login manager Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 7/9] packagegroup-core-basic: set " Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 8/9] mingetty: lower the ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 5:49 ` [PATCH V2 9/9] tinylogin: remove recipe Qi.Chen
2013-06-17 10:17 ` Phil Blundell
2013-06-17 10:28 ` Richard Purdie
2013-06-17 10:59 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2013-06-17 11:06 ` Richard Purdie
2013-06-17 11:15 ` Phil Blundell
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