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Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0


On Aug 21 06:20, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/21/2014 06:19 AM, D. Boland wrote:
> 
> >> Your library is concerned with inserting itself into certain calls to
> >> swap uid/gid so programs expecting a fixed mapping of some uid/gid to
> >> certain capabilities (roughly associated with the concept of a root
> >> user) work without the actual source getting patched on a system where
> >> those assumptions aren't true.  Looks like different thing to me and
> >> giving it a different name surely wouldn't hurt.
> 
> > fakesu?
> 
> I like this one.

Ditto.


Corinna

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