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by kam 85 days ago
Send a message to a socket-activated daemon running as a UID with write access to the password database.
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linsomniac 84 days ago
Isn't the issue in this case caused not by suid, but by a daemon running as root reading files from a tmp dir? Seems like a socket-activated daemon wouldn't solve this specific case.
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