On 4/13/12 2:37 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

[...]
If your package meets the following criteria you MUST enable the PIE compiler
flags:
[...]
   * Your package runs as root.
[...]

If this is meant to cover administrative binaries that have no
privilege escalation pieces of their own, merely run by root, then
what makes them different from any other /bin/* program that a root
process might invoke?

It's not meant to cover that. That phrasing is meant to cover system components like init that do not function _unless_ run as uid 0.

- ajax

--
devel mailing list
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Reply via email to