Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:42:08 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Privilege dropping security module |
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On Thu 2009-10-01 09:15:37, Andy Spencer wrote: > > Yeah, and now your ~/.ssh/identity is being uploaded to remote server. > > The given policy sets the home directory (including ~/.ssh/) to `X' > which does not include read access, so ~/.ssh/identity should be safe. > There are some other problems with this particular policy though, /tmp/ > is still readable for example. > > > > I believe people are already sandboxing apps with selinux... > > Yes, some people (including myself) are already using selinux, tomoyo, > smack, etc, for sandboxing. However, I think those have some > disadvantages that I'm trying to address.
Ok, I guess advantages over selinux (etc) are probably worth it for changelog on submission...
> > ...and subterfugue certainly does what you want, using ptrace... no > > kernel mods needed and should already be secure. > > subterfugue does look interesting, but it seems like it would be pretty > slow and hasn't been unmaintained since 2001.
It is userland code, it should not have rotted that much. Pavel
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