Re: [PATCH 0/9] Open loaders and interpreters with new creds during exec

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On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 11:48 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Of course, this may not apply to scripts, since we don't normally allow those
> to effect SUID/SGID transitions.  Should set-security-label transitions be
> ignored on scripts too (which I think was one of the points Casey was taking
> about)?  Should the script interpreter simply reset the credentials to those
> of the current user?

The kernel should allow set-security-label transitions on scripts;
SELinux makes use of such transitions particularly for system
initialization, where the caller is already at least as trusted as the
callee.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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