Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (605 mails)

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Re: [suse-security] restricting user commands
  • From: "Kurt Seifried" <listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:52:38 -0600
  • Message-id: <001d01c14b51$e195a740$6400030a@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> maybe a combination of chrooting, quota, no exec and removed
> binarys is a good way?:)
>
> chroot to safe the rest of the maschine (yes, i know, chroot
> can be br0ken)
> quota to stops the user from compiling

? So you're not going to let them store data, or use lynx with cookies?

> no exec for the ones who dunno how to exec a bin anyway ;)

then their chroot will be a bit broken if nothing can exec.

> and removed binarys to restrict the possibilities (like
> no compiler etc.)

uploading stuff is possible through so many things (sed and awk!).

> another way may be usermode linux .. for every user a own
> system ;) diskspace is not much expensive today ...and
> CPU etc. also ... and you can backup this linux from
> the master maschine so if somebody killed his box, just
> copy the files back ...

-Kurt


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