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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [RFC][PATCH] scripts with stdin replaced
From:       Ralf Baechle <ralf () uni-koblenz ! de>
Date:       1999-07-08 9:23:23
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On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:44:23AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:

> > Probably the only safe well-known interpreter is perl, and that runs
> > setuid scripts itself already.
> 
> That is a kludge, and it won't work at all when capabilities are done right
> in the filesystem.

I don't see why Perl's mechanism for SUID scripts used on Linux couldn't
be expanded to cover capabilites as well.  Except that that would make
as small part of Perl the single point of failure in the security system.

  Ralf

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