Re: Linux 2.3.99pre9-2 JOB list

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 06:45:41 EDT

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    > Yes, except that GUI _anything_ involves a bunch of libraries that never
    > were audited with suid-root in mind. And the main activity of said
    > libraries is dealing with user-controlled input... I dearly hope that
    > this GUI mount actually calls mount(8) - assuming the authors' sanity it's
    > the only reasonable variant, but that's a heck of undemonstrated
    > assumption...

    The GUI ones I have seen use mount(8) and its existing user mount stuff. I've
    not seen any that are setuid. Even modern xdm clones and xterm replacements
    are not setuid/setgid

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