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On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:41:45 -0400, Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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> The idea seemed simple enough to me so I wrote a real quick wrapper |
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> script to see how hard it would be do it. few mins of hacking later.. |
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> Your right it's not so hard at all. Atleast from a wrapper script. |
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> Here is what the end result gives us. |
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> --- USER EBUILD_PHASE |
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> >>> solar phase(clean) |
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> >>> solar phase(setup) |
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> >>> solar phase(unpack) |
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> >>> solar phase(compile) |
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> >>> solar phase(test) |
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> >>> solar phase(install) |
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> >>> solar phase(package) |
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> --- call remaining phases with root privs |
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> >>> root phase(setup) |
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> >>> root phase(preinst) |
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> >>> root phase(prerm) |
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> >>> root phase(postrm) |
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> >>> root phase(postinst) |
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> I would not really consider this any more secure by any means. An |
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> attacker can still take control of your system via other methods. |
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> But as far as keeping ebuilds from major screwups like rm -rf ${TYPO}/* |
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> this should do the trick. |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/portage_misc/emerge-wrapper |
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> I've only tested with some fairly small packages. No idea how a kernel |
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> module or whatever would be handled. |
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> If you build an the idea please share your changes with me. I'm all for |
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> handling as many phases as we can as non root. Assuming it does not lead |
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> to us having to install some new suid bin todo it. |
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Very cool. I especially like the comment after checking for uid == 0. :) |
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I'll test this out with a few packages. |
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Chris |
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