From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
Cc: qingtao.cao@windriver.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 9/9] tinylogin: remove recipe
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:06:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371467178.20823.103.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371466771.6580.14.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign>
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 11:59 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> 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.
The plan (and I believe what this series does) is to have two busybox
binaries, one is suid (as small a subset as we really need) and the
other is not and hence this hopefully goes some way to reassuring people
about that.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 11:06 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
2013-06-17 11:06 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2013-06-17 11:15 ` Phil Blundell
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