The purpose of this LSM is to allow processes to drop to a less privileged
user id without having to grant them full CAP_SETUID (or use file caps).
The LSM allows configuring a whitelist policy of permitted from:to uid
transitions. The policy is enforced upon calls to setuid(2) and related
syscalls.
Policies are configured through securityfs by writing to
- safesetid/add_whitelist_policy ; and
- safesetid/flush_whitelist_policies
A process attempting a transition not permitted by current policy is killed
(to avoid accidentally running with higher privileges than intended).
A uid that has a configured policy is prevented from obtaining auxiliary
setuid privileges (e.g., setting up user namespaces).
See also: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.html
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