From: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Setuid programs
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 02:27:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4v=pgDKsBwyr=Rs_O_-z_qKz35mBZcsAeOS5H0Hj1ShNXOwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874knxonu8.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. szept. 16., Sze, 15:25):
>
> Hi,
>
> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I have two reasons for that: backwards compatibility is really
> > important, so we should not break it, and I believe this would not be
> > hard to do.
> > On the other hand it would be nice to have a more integrated backend,
> > and move as many things into the services infrastructure as practical,
> > and I think this is a good candidate for that. Wdyt?
>
> There’s already ‘setuid-program-service-type’. I think the way forward
> would be to:
>
> 1. Define the <setuid-program> record type you propose.
>
> 2. Have ‘setuid-program-service-type’ accept that through its
> extensions. When it receives something else, it should
> transparently turn it into a <setuid-program> record, for backward
> compatibility, and emit a deprecation warning.
>
> 3. Document the OS ‘setuid-programs’ field as taking a list of such
> records.
>
> How does that sound?
Sounds good to me. I will have a look.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
Best regards,
g_bor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 0:28 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
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 [this message]
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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