Re: openssh

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> there is (phew! searching done) the --disable-net-redirections possibility
> in the configure of bash ...

There's also a --enable-minimal-config option.  This will keep you from
writing non-portable shell scripts too :)  You could even go with a non-bash
shell, or remove the shell altogether, and use fork+execve to run all
the programs at startup.

Do not have the security of your system rely on people not being able to
execute thier own code.  You don't need a compiler when you can copy
a binary data to the system (perhaps via a uuencoded file, and an awk
script or something to convert it).  Furthermore, one may not need ld.so
at all if there's a single exploitable vulnerability in any of the installed
binaries, even without a setuid bit (you did remove all those setuid bits,
right?), and they can insert thier binary code into the running executable.

-James
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