Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:18:23 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Disallowing user access to "listening" ports. |
| |
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Amanda Shuler wrote:
> I apologize advance for my extreme lack of knowledge in linux development > of any kind. I am only presuming to post to this list under the advice of > a friend. > > I want to make it impossible for daemons to be started under any UID > that is greater than 100, except for UID 65534. > > Some suggested that I make a patch for my kernel that would do something > such as: > > if UID > 100 and UID != 65534 > then "do not open socket"
... which means that your lusers will be unable to use email, news, FTP *and* HTTP (i.e. no web for them). Is that *really* the thing you want?
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |