On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM Florian Weimer via devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Aoife Moloney via devel-announce: > > > The privilege-separated design is preserved and sharpened: the only > > setuid-root binary is `userhelper`, kept to PAM calls, privilege > > transitions, and `exec`. > > It his binary written in Rust? > > The upstream Rust security team has not documented that Rust is safe to > use in SUID binaries, and the standard library (and therefore most > crates) do not take this special operating environment into > consideration.
Can you elaborate what you mean here? I don't really see a connection between programming language and SUID use. And I don't see how the Rust standard library plays any role here either - it contains zero functionality related to unix user / group support. Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
