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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	rmarwah@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] Add cap reduction support to enable use as SUID
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:21:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA5BAA1.9010507@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA5B8E5.6040306@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 10/24/2011 02:13 PM, Corey Bryant wrote:
>> Right, it's not desirable, but isn't that the best we can do without
>> libcap or FS capabilities?
>>
>
> I think the best we can do is not let it run in those cases. :) I'd like see if
> others in the community have an opinion on this though.

IMHO, it should work as an setuid binary maintaining root privileges.  As long 
as it's a small binary (which it is) and is easy to audit, it should be safe.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-21 15:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] -net bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu Corey Bryant
2011-10-21 15:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] Add basic version of bridge helper Corey Bryant
2011-10-23 12:56   ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-24 13:12     ` Corey Bryant
2011-10-21 15:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] Add access control support to qemu " Corey Bryant
2011-10-23 13:10   ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-24 13:44     ` Corey Bryant
2011-10-24 16:58       ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-21 15:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] Add cap reduction support to enable use as SUID Corey Bryant
2011-10-23 13:22   ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-24 14:13     ` Corey Bryant
2011-10-24 17:10       ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-24 18:38         ` Corey Bryant
2011-10-24 18:58           ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-24 19:13             ` Corey Bryant
2011-10-24 19:21               ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-10-24 20:20                 ` Corey Bryant
2011-10-24 22:15                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-24 19:19       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-21 15:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] Add support for net bridge Corey Bryant

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