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The trouble with symbolic links

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 8, 2022 6:35 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: The trouble with symbolic links by Hello71
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

> suid executables are profoundly broken

That's exactly the point I was going to make. bind mounts in private namespaces are perfectly safe. setuid programs as profoundly broken, whether you use namespaces or not.
If we, collectively, were serious about security, we would be mounting all filesystems with nosuid.


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