Re: Needs to prevent executing su.

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:59, Thomas Bleher <bleher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Setting the uid in a program should be covered by the setuid capability,
> so this is controllable by SELinux policy. What is not covered (IIRC)
> are setuid executables.

Yes, the setuid capability covers the ability to call the setuid() system 
call.  If a setuid binary has a type that triggers a domain_auto_trans() rule 
then the target domain will be checked for setuid capability.

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