On Wednesday, 28 October 2026 18:47:11 Central European Standard Time Florian
Weimer via devel 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?
Yes, this is a rewrite 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.
Any idea why it would be problematic or not? I really wonder about the
details.
Andreas
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