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Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> On Thursday 30 September 2004 2:04 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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>>Well, the issue is that without being root the file permissions in the |
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>>install stage will not be correct. The only even more secure option |
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>>besides the sandbox would be some kind of chroot with an overlay |
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>>filesystem. That would though require a nonstandard kernel module and as |
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>>such raise all kinds of other problems. |
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> Simply implementing sandbox as a kernel module would have the same security |
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> effect as such a chroot. Then, libsandbox (or whatever it's called) could |
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> simply use the module if available and fallback to the normal way if it's |
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> not... |
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So in other words, breaking all installs that don't use kernel modules? |
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Steve |
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