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From: Jan Krueger <jk@×××××××××××.net>
To: azarah@g.o
Cc: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:39:41
Message-Id: 200309071645.10513.jk@microgalaxy.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions by Martin Schlemmer
1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 14:13, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2 > But you trust the daemons/programs running with root privs all the
3 > time ? :D
4 No, they may contain unknown security holes. So i try hard to limit the amount
5 of root daemons first and second try to run only root deamons that drop
6 privileges after they did what they had to do as root. And there are options
7 available to jail them pretty tight.
8
9 On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:13, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
10 > Btw, I think that getting ebuild messages recorded an displayed at the
11 > end of the merge is also a big part of this whole issue.
12
13 Yes, agreed :)
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