Directory structures in the future and other things I want.

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:43 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> 
> The question is, do we have programs down the sbins that make the wrong
> assumption about path segregation equalling protection?  And if so, how
> many?  The obvious ones to me that need scrutiny are the executables that
> are setuid root.  Do we need to take some extra care about those setuid'd
> executables?

This question applies today regardless of default path statements.
Absolutely nothing on a default Fedora system prevents me as a non-root
user from calling any setuid binary from (/usr)/sbin.  Nothing.  If
we're concerned about the security of these things, we would have to
audit them regardless of any path changes.  Period.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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