Re: Secure Linux From Scratch

Archaic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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....

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