Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Michael Reilly <michaelr@×××××.com>
To: Bill McCarty <bmccarty@××××××.net>
Cc: Tad <tadglines@×××××××.net>, gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] su command
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:41:24
Message-Id: 20040113203940.74a8d0d0@Cowboys.cisco.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] su command by Bill McCarty
1 I like punishment :-)
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4 I manually merge the gentoo changes into the policy I've been building up
5 since before the new API existed. I like the way staff_r behaves in the old
6 policy so keep that part unchanged.
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8 michael
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10 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:28:56 -0800
11 Bill McCarty <bmccarty@××××××.net> wrote:
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13 > Hi Mike and all,
14 >
15 > Thanks, Mike! That helps me understand my confusion.
16 >
17 > Are lots of folks running Gentoo with policies other than that distributed
18 >
19 > in the Gentoo ebuild? I'd have expected anyone doing so to experience
20 > problems with emerge and other Gentoo-specific facilities. So, I infer
21 > that anyone doing so has significantly modified whatever policy they're
22 > using.
23 >
24 > Cheers,
25 >
26 > --On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:57 PM -0800 Michael Reilly
27 > <michaelr@×××××.com> wrote:
28 >
29 > > staff_r can su with the older NSA released policy and with Richard
30 > > Cocker's policy (I hope I spelled his name correctly). I haven't tried
31 > > the latest to see if the NSA policy has changed this or not
32 > >
33 > > I still use the older policy. If my role is staff_r I can always su.
34 > >
35 > > The older policy dis-allows going directly to staff_r via ssh. A
36 > > newrole is needed.
37 >
38 > ---------------------------------------------------
39 > Bill McCarty
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45 Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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