Questions tagged [privileges]

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Privilege for a linux application

If I write a program on Linux, I have two ways of configuring what privilege the program runs with: It can run with the invoker's privilege (whoever runs the program) I can use setuid so it can run with my privilege Are there any other options to…
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How to defend from privilege escalation if user is using the disk group?

A base Centos7 install: [root@teszt ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 100G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot └─sda2 8:2 0 99G 0 part ├─cl-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm…