* Lennart Poettering: > I mean, polkit has some issues, but I am pretty sure that "pkexec" is > not what I'd consider the big problem with it. Or to say this > differently: the whole concept of tools like > su/sudo/setpriv/runuser/suid binaries is questionnable: i.e. I am > pretty sure we'd be better off if we would systematically prohibit > acquiring privs through execve(), and instead focus on delegating > privileged operations to IPC services — but of course that would be > quite a departure from traditional UNIX.
One issue is that it's harder to prevent other users from doing execve than it's denying them access to some IPC service. In this sense, SUID programs are more robust. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ 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 on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
