From: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: fedora-security-list@redhat.com,
Systemtap List <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Need some security advice for systemtap
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4665CA11.5050107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466522FF.8080801@wpkg.org>
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> David Smith schrieb:
>
> (...)
>
>> Some basic ideas about how we can allow users without sudo access to
>> run "blessed" scripts/modules can be seen at
>> <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4523>,
>>
>> So, I'm looking for thoughts, criticisms, pointers, etc. to do this in
>> a manner that won't allow a system to be easily compromised. We're
>> in the fairly early stages of this idea, and I'm looking for direction
>> before heading down the wrong road.
>
> Am I right? Is it security based on md5sum?
That was the basic idea. It would be easy enough to substitute a better
hash function - I'm guessing one of the shaXXXsum would be more robust.
--
David Smith
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-05 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-04 19:34 David Smith
2007-06-05 8:47 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-06-05 15:09 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-06-05 20:40 ` David Smith [this message]
2007-06-05 17:20 ` grundy
2007-06-05 20:56 ` David Smith
2007-06-08 22:00 ` Pavel Kankovsky
2007-06-11 13:09 ` David Smith
2007-06-11 18:35 ` David Smith
2007-06-11 21:32 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-06-11 22:00 ` David Smith
2007-06-16 15:35 ` Pavel Kankovsky
2007-06-18 19:45 ` David Smith
2007-06-19 0:02 ` Martin Hunt
2007-06-19 19:57 ` David Smith
2007-06-19 20:42 ` Stone, Joshua I
2007-07-01 16:14 ` Pavel Kankovsky
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