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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:52:43 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
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On 4/18/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > A masking bind over /etc/passwd could be disasterous
> > on Unix and I don't think anyone has really solved this problem yet
>
> this is trivial to solve.  setuid binaries should run
> in the default system name space instead of inheriting
> the one in use where they are started.
>
> russ

Hmmm, anyone spoken to Al Viro about this?