On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: > Write a daemon. Rig up wrappers for each setuid program to instead > call into that daemon and have that daemon invoke the privileged > program on behalf of the caller, with a sanitized environment. Be > annoyed by a few items on the "linux plumber's wish list" that make > this rather difficult right now.
FWIW, this is something we'd like to do in Chrome OS. Dealing with fs-attrs has traditionally been a pain, so this kind of simple passing down of privilege would be much nicer. It means we'd have a programmatic way to decide what privs a helper has, rather than having to represent it in some way on-disk. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
