Re: More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?
[Posted December 10, 2008 by jake]
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| Seth Vidal <skvidal-AT-fedoraproject.org> |
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| Re: More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea? |
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| Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:06:41 -0500 (EST) |
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On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 20:29 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
>> These are required to be this way for our Common Criteria evaluations.
>
> Is the thought here that if the code can be executed by a non-root user,
> the audit of the code would have to be far more strict? If you keep the
> user from being able to execute, you don't have to worry as much about
> how they might exploit it?
And do we seriously think we can keep the code away from a non-root user
by chmodd'ing the binaries? A user can get a binary for anything
fedora can install in about 30s w/firefox.
-sv
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