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People's reaction to this is just stupid.People's reaction to this is just stupid.Posted Nov 20, 2009 2:36 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: People's reaction to this is just stupid. by khc Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages
That does nothing for security, however. There is no security barrier between two terminals running
as the same UID: The second terminal is just a ptrace() away from making the first terminal run sudo for it...
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People's reaction to this is just stupid. Posted Nov 20, 2009 12:26 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] You can't ptrace() sudo, and you can't run sudo with suid if the parent is traced. It is not that stupid. ;-)(Obviously, if you have a terminal you have other ways to snoop passwords.)
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