Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] private mounts | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:45:35 +0200 |
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> > Comments are appreciated. If there are no vetoes agains the patch, I > > think it's suitable for -mm. > > Vetoed. Having suid application with different pathname resolution than > that of parent just because it is suid is not acceptable. I'm sorry, > but breaking hell knows how many existing applications is not an option.
I'm pretty sure any suid program doing path resolution and other filesystem operations on _behalf_ of the original user will do them with fsuid, fsgid set to the original. Otherwise they are bound to break in other cases too (NFS export with root_sqash, etc).
Have any counterexamples?
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