Re: debix searches sponsor
Hi.
Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
>Debix-imager
>============
>
>Debix-imager is a setuid binary that allows a user to create a
>loopback file, format it with the filesystem of his choice and install
>the contents of a tar file or a debian system via debootstrap on it.
>
>The intention is to make it flexible enough for boot-floppies,
>debian-installer and debix to create their bootfloppies, ramdisks and
>live filesystems without needing root themself.
>
>I'm looking for a sponsor that knows a bit about security.
>boot-floppies and/or debian-installer experiences would be good too.
>At the moment I'm use ocaml but a rewrite in C/C++ would be easy and
>maybe cleaner. (Codesize 195 lines atm).
Are you sure this (creating the filesystems) cannot be done entirely without root /
suid programs? At least for debian-installer I had the impression that they get
quite far with recent mtools/syslinux.
Cheers
T.
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