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On Friday 06 October 2006 01:07, Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe |
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> Hi all, |
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> What do you guys think of: |
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> - reduce the number of setuid to the maximum |
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> - reduce the number of daemons running has root. |
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Sounds good. |
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> has example, openbsd and openwall (among others) both try to have sane |
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> setuids and setguids for things like: |
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> - cron/at service |
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> - syslog and klogd |
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> - passwd (on openwall, not shure about openbsd) |
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> and much more.. |
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> those are the things I miss most, a sane default filesystem system |
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> permissions and a lot of services that can be running without root |
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> privileges.. |
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> One interesting Idea would be to use the /etc/shadow replacement that |
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> is present in openwall |
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Not something I've looked at. Could you describe this a bit more? |
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> anyone knows if any of these things/ideas is being followed, if so, |
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> were can I find pointers to it? |
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for the suid/daemons its generally up to each package maintainer. |
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What I'd suggest is to put in a bug report on how to make each package not |
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suid or root daemon. |
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Also look for a place in the gentoo documentation to put these desireable |
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qualities and put some suggested text. |
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> I |
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> best regards, |
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> Miguel Sousa Filipe |
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Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o> |
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