Previously Herbert Xu wrote: > There is a very good reason that those things created new users, because they > have to read/write files owned by those users. Even when not reading/writing files, you can attack the running process as well. > As to the fact that we only have a limited number of users, I agree it's a > problem. Perhaps we should address it by allocating new chunks in the uid > space for system users. We have a whole range (60000-64999) of reserved static uids and gids.. So far only netplan and ftn are using it. (I want qmail moved to that range as well btw). Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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