On 01/02/2018 01:15 AM, Josip Rodin wrote:
> All of those changes related to HAVE_COURIER sound like something that
> should be possible to figure out on runtime.

That's exactly what I thought as well and proposed, but upstream
rejected as an additional security risk.

> I still don't see a rationale for that. The existence of those measly few
> lines about the HAVE_COURIER define, that we then have to interpret and
> reverse-engineer and whatnot - simply don't constitute a valid rationale
> for adding back a binary with suid root by default.

Exactly my line of thought as well.

> I think we need to ask Sam to document this properly, and only then proceed
> with any further considerations.

That's fine with me.

Kind Regards

Markus Wanner

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