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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:05:36
Message-Id: hdp3t9$4n5$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On 11/15/2009 11:22 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 >
3 > SELinux allows to spread the tasks root needs to do or can do accross several
4 > roles. Of course, if only one single person has root access to the system this
5 > doesn't make sense. But we're talking about cases where several people (incl.
6 > the malicious attacker) have root access. So you can very well configure a
7 > (SE-)Linux system so that "root" can't do everything.
8
9 So how do you get your machine back if you forbid yourself to change its
10 configuration then?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>