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Removing setuid

Posted Nov 29, 2010 14:06 UTC (Mon) by talex (subscriber, #19139)
In reply to: Removing setuid by zlynx
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

Needing to privileges to drop privileges seems quite a common problem with Linux. Unfortunately, patches to solve this problem may themselves cause more problems... by interfering with SetUID binaries:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/10/142

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