Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH] New fs to control access to system resources | From | Olaf Dietsche <> | Date | 16 Jan 2002 18:18:40 +0100 |
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dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes:
> On 15 Jan 2002, Olaf Dietsche wrote: > > > For example, you can say, user www is allowed to bind to port 80 or > > user mail is allowed to bind to port 25. Then, you can run apache as > > user www and sendmail as user mail. Now, you don't have to rely on > > apache or sendmail giving up superuser rights to enhance security. > > typically logging must also occur as some other user than what the daemon > runs as, or else your logs are suspect in any sort of break-in. this is > no problem for stuff using syslog, but since that's not the default > configuration for apache you might want to put a note in any docs you end > up including. one suggestion is piped logging through a setuid logger > (setuid to user wwwlogs or something, root not required).
Right. But that's user space and shouldn't impact the kernel/accessfs. Or did I miss something?
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