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Best practice for setuid and setgid in /root and user directories

ZFS allows to created datasets with setuid turned off, which (AFAIK) means that setuid bit can't be set on files stored in those datasets. Assume now that there are two datasets, one for the /root ...
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Amazon EC2 Ubuntu and upstart logging permissions

I have set up this upstart script on a Amazon Ec2 Ubuntu 12.04 TLS instance for executing a node.js application. The script uses setuid and setgid. It works fine without using setuid and setgid but ...
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checksecurity / setuid changes, is this a bug or did somebody break in?

I received a mail by checksecurity from my ubuntu 12.04 server with the following content: --- setuid.today 2012-06-03 06:48:09.892436281 +0200 +++ /var/log/setuid/setuid.new.tmp 2012-06-17 06:47:...
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RHEL8 Limits not applied when setuid is configured

I have configured my limits.conf file to allocate a huge stack size * soft stack 65535 * hard stack 65535 ulimit -s shows the correct value for both root ...
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Using setuid in a Shell Script on Ubuntu 20.04

So I have a Laravel PHP app on Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04. I have a simple deploy.sh script that will: Put Laravel into maintenance mode, so it returns a 503 error if anyone visits the site Pulls down the ...
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How to rsync to remote machine with user1 for ssh and user2 as remote rsyncer?

UPDATE: it seems I have to use rsync modules. So I created a very simple rsyncd.conf in the home of user2 on the remote server with: [test] path = /dest It does not work, but the problem seems ...
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Elevated privileges for non-modifiable install script

I need to give permission to a local user to run an installation script that requires root privilege. So I created a special group in which this user is a member of and gave the permissions to the ...
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