On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:07:18 +0200
"J. Fahrner via Dng" wrote:
> Am 2019-10-14 01:01, schrieb tom:
> > Why in gods name does a centralized instant messenger require root
> > privileges on your machine?
>
> Signal uses the electron framework for running in a sandbox. Electron
> uses the Linux us
Am 2019-10-14 01:01, schrieb tom:
Why in gods name does a centralized instant messenger require root
privileges on your machine?
Signal uses the electron framework for running in a sandbox. Electron
uses the Linux user namespaces feature for building the sandbox, but
this seems to be disabled
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:46:28 +0200
Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote:
> Hi, Jochen.
>
> El Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:29:34 +0200
> "J. Fahrner via Dng" escribió:
>
> > I just came across a security problem. The application
> > signal-desktop could not be started anymore because a file from the
Hi, Jochen.
El Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:29:34 +0200
"J. Fahrner via Dng" escribió:
> I just came across a security problem. The application signal-desktop
> could not be started anymore because a file from the electron framework
> did not set a setuid bit
> (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Des
I just came across a security problem. The application signal-desktop
could not be started anymore because a file from the electron framework
did not set a setuid bit
(https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3536).
For the sandbox feature this obviously needs root privileges.
It cree
