Opened new Issue to update setuid -
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/10279

Joakim Erdfelt / [email protected]


On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:11 PM Cantor, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> > It was never updated for Jetty 10/11, doesn't work with Jetty 10/11
> > properly, and we've had zero complaints about that too.
>
> It works fine for me with 10 and 11, at least it seems to. Since it has
> continued to ship with the software, there was no reason for me to ever ask
> about it being supported, and I assumed it still was.
>
> > What exactly are you trying to accomplish with that old custom libsetuid
> > functionality that cannot be done with existing tooling in your
> environment?
> >(Eg: run Jetty with a specific userid)
>
> The alternatives are all much worse IMHO. Chaining ports with a firewall
> is less performant, and brittle, very easy to screw up, and introduces a
> huge loss of "locality" to the whole system.
>
> The SETCAP thing probably works and will probably be my preferred option
> to try, though it's relatively recent in terms of Red Hat releases
> (relatively, it probably does exist on 7, though if not, that's a problem
> for me for the moment). Its main issue is it applies to the whole java
> binary, not just the Jetty process, but for a single use server it's fine.
>
> Supposedly systemd can do something declaratively I think, but I don't
> know if it works with Java, and I have never managed to get a unit file
> working with Jetty. But that's largely due to my not having to up until
> now. Systemd is also an abomination to begin with of course but is an
> unavoidable evil now.
>
> Anyway, if it's not supported, it's not, that's what I needed to know. I
> would say you probably shouldn't be including the shared libs and the
> module for it though, it certainly makes it appear that it's still a
> standard feature.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
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