Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
Matthew Miller
mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 16 16:32:21 UTC 2015
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 02:03:38PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> In general: encoding privilige policy into the API through binary
> paths is a really bad idea, as policy shouldn't be considered strict
> API (or to be more precise: it should be allowed to open up policy --
> while of course not necessarily to close it down later on), but paths
> are.
Yeah, that's why I was suggesting using it instead for things that
really have no business being in anyone's path, root or not, rather
than have it relate to privileges at all. But, again, only
halfheartedly.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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