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SubjectRE: Re: [PATCH]: non-readable binaries - binfmt_misc 2.6.0-test4
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--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> I don't like the security issues here. Sure, you
> "trust" the interpreter,
> and clearly only root can set the flag, but to me
> that just makes me
> wonder why the interpreter itself can't be a simple
> suid wrapper that does
> the mapping rather than having it done in kernel
> space..
>

If the binary resides on a NFS drive ( which is a very common practice )
then the suid-wrapper solution will not work because root permissions
are squashed on the remote drive.
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