From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hetzner.pbcl.net (mail.pbcl.net [88.198.119.4]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A64560819 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cpc6-cmbg17-2-0-cust487.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.30.57.232] helo=[172.30.1.45]) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UoX9o-00033f-DP; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:59:32 +0200 Message-ID: <1371466771.6580.14.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> From: Phil Blundell To: Richard Purdie Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:59:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1371464893.20823.100.camel@ted> References: <1371464233.6580.3.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> <1371464893.20823.100.camel@ted> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: qingtao.cao@windriver.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 9/9] tinylogin: remove recipe X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.