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SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default

SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default

Posted Apr 12, 2012 16:20 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462)
In reply to: SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default by slashdot
Parent article: SELinuxDenyPtrace and security by default

It's not extremely difficult to see the problem here: if you can't trust your editor if you need to edit your .profile, or if you can't trust it to properly handle its contents -- a program crash is not necessarily involved -- then what good is it to you that you have a secure way of opening it?

Who or what specifies what is or is not permitted?


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