Can I strip setuid permissions from Red Hat provided binaries safely?

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Issue

  • Red Hat ships a number of binaries which have the setuid root flag set on them in order that they execute with elevated permissions. Is it safe to remove the flag from these files?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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