Fedora to (try to) remove setuid files for F15
Fedora to (try to) remove setuid files for F15
[Distributions] Posted Oct 28, 2010 14:54 UTC (Thu) by corbet
The report from the October 26 FESCO meeting (click below for the whole
thing) includes the news that the remove setuid
feature has been approved for the Fedora 15 release. "File
Capabilties have been present in the Operating System for a few releases
now, it is time that we remove setuid applications and just assign the
capabilities required by an application. This should make the applications
and the Operating System more secure.
" Implementing this should be
an interesting challenge.