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Savanna.gnu.org compromised too

Savanna.gnu.org compromised too

Posted Dec 4, 2003 19:31 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Savanna.gnu.org compromised too by RobSeace
Parent article: Savanna.gnu.org compromised too

Actually, there are several projects that allow limiting permissions of the root account. In particular, direct access to the hardware can be disabled. Also it should be possible to remount most filesystems read-only and disable root permissions for mounting. If you need to perform administrative tasks, you have to reboot the system and do it on local the console.

Or just give a separate virtual machine to every user.


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