From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Setuid programs
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:43:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dtj753p.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=pif+ofumQaju=ZTH7hpUrbQ-ZG9ekqAj0wadO7g7GCaVQ@mail.gmail.com> ("Gábor Boskovits"'s message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:34:45 +0200")
Hello Gabor!
Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello guix,
>
> I would like to propose an extension to how setuid programs are
> currently handled. The last time I checked it could only do setuid and
> setgid root. Some services, such as postfix need a more fine grained
> setuid setup. I would propose a record type, such as:
> (setuid
> (program setuid-program)
> (setuid setuid-setuid)
> (setgid setuid-setgid)
> (user setuid-user)
> (group setuid-group))
>
> So that there is more fine grained control.
>
> I would also propose to move this to the services framework, so that
> services could extend this field on demand.
>
> Wdyt?
This sounds great! I also encountered such limitation and tried to
fixing it in https://issues.guix.info/41763, with some success (and an
unresolved limitation pointed by Chriistopher) but I agree that using a
record makes more sense and is more future proof.
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-28 4:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-27 6:34 Setuid programs Gábor Boskovits
2020-08-28 4:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2020-09-09 19:00 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-09-09 21:31 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-09-09 22:19 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-09-09 22:52 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-09-10 7:27 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-09-10 15:01 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-09-16 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-17 0:27 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-11-07 17:15 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-14 20:18 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-16 17:44 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-16 23:39 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
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