Re: sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

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On 4/13/12 2:37 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

[...]
If your package meets the following criteria you MUST enable the PIE compiler
flags:
[...]
   * Your package runs as root.
[...]

If this is meant to cover administrative binaries that have no
privilege escalation pieces of their own, merely run by root, then
what makes them different from any other /bin/* program that a root
process might invoke?

It's not meant to cover that. That phrasing is meant to cover system components like init that do not function _unless_ run as uid 0.

- ajax

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