Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 1996 23:44:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Illuminati Primus <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) |
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On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Difficult, perhaps, but not impossible. Just program with a devious > > mindset. In case of this particular problem, make sure that you don't > > chown() the file, but rather open() it, fstat() it, stat() it, then fchown() > > it. It can't get much safer than that. > > Linux 2.1.15 has the ability to pass secure access right information > (userid etc) between processes over unix sockets. IMHO You can now build > a client/server based unix setup for all the priviledged operations without > a setuid binary on the system.
Wow.. How does this work? And where can I get more information about this? -vermont@gate.net
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