[ITP] libsuexec 1.0

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Thu Aug 21 12:20:00 GMT 2014


On 08/21/2014 06:19 AM, D. Boland wrote:

>> Your library is concerned with inserting itself into certain calls to
>> swap uid/gid so programs expecting a fixed mapping of some uid/gid to
>> certain capabilities (roughly associated with the concept of a root
>> user) work without the actual source getting patched on a system where
>> those assumptions aren't true.  Looks like different thing to me and
>> giving it a different name surely wouldn't hurt.

> fakesu?

I like this one.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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