Re: Secure Linux From Scratch
Archaic <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.security |
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:46:54AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > The admin of this system would have to take root fairly seriously for all this > to make sence. Without a more sophisticated package system, I think it would > be good to use a non-root user to build packages, and Sudo with some decent > rules, to install. That's been practical advise forever and the book should enforce such practices. > I think a few programs rely on bash being installed, but that doesn't mean > everything has to use it. Pdksh, csh, or restricted bash (rbash) could be > used in boot and other scripts that run as root. Now that I hadn't thought of.... -- Archaic The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens. - Senator Edward V. Long -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-security FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page