[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:57:19 +0000
From: Malte Kraus <malte.kraus@...e.com>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: "perry@...rmont.com" <perry@...rmont.com>
Subject: Re: Privileged File Access from Desktop Applications
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 09:33 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> So these links seem to say that things have been structured so you
> *can't* run GUI apps as root, not that there is a special or unusual
> security problem in Wayland if you run an application as root
I didn't (intend to) say there is an (additional) security problem. I
just tried to succinctly explain why the desktop environments are
coming up with these D-Bus interfaces now.
--
Malte Kraus <malte.kraus@...e.com>
Security Engineer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary
Higgins, Sri Rasiah, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Please check out the
Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this
mailing list.
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
