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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] kernel: Conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities
Am 01.02.2015 um 00:30 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:56:14PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>>> *Today*, Linux is a challenging choice for a tiny embedded system.
>>> We're trying to fix that.
>>
>> Can you please more specific about the embedded systems exactly you're
>> talking about?
>>
>> I find this patch rather controversial as it removes a lot of security.
>> Embedded systems *are* a target for all kind of attacks.
>> Misguided embedded engineers will abuse this feature and produce even more
>> weak targets.
>
> Without this patch, those same engineers would simply run everything as
> root. "Make a foolproof system, and they will invent a better fool". ;-)

Luckily many services will run as non-root by default and some even refuse to
run as root. :-)

Thanks,
//richard


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