[Pkg-samba-maint] failing salsa reprotest job

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Apr 4 00:09:10 BST 2022


On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 12:25 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
> Heh.  I didn't expect *real* setuid autoconf test, the one
> 
> that checks the actual *behaviour* of the syscall and not
> 
> just its presence. Wow.

When you are a bit of software as old as Samba you remember systems
that broke this stuff badly enough to be horribly insecure.

That said, arguments will be accepted upstream as to if this still
makes sense, given the modern separation between build and runtime
systems, containers etc. 

Andrew,

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