Re: SUID executable policy?

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:34:23AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Btw, the rant of mine that Matthew pointed to was more concerned with
> the sad fact that we run a bunch of X11 apps as root.. Just don't run
> any X11 apps as root; it's a really really bad idea, thanks :-)

Yeah but it's such a good rant. :)

And seriously, although X is the most obviously scary, the same thing
applies to any setuid code beyond the incredibly trivial.

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