Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

Hua Zhong (huaz@cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:10:32 -0400


-> From Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> :

> > (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0.
> > Ted, any objections?
>
> That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse
> you into doing something ?

a setuid app only changes euid, doesn't it?

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