> On 31-Mar-2015, at 9:11 pm, Max Fillinger 
> <maximilian.fillin...@uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:10:31AM -0500, Joe Crivello wrote:
>> I can't think of any other scenarios right now, but I'd be interested to
>> hear if there is something I'm not thinking of...
> 
> Another scenario might be a non-admin user trying to run an unauthorized
> program. In that case, one could put the user's home directory on a
> partition mounted with the noexec option, so there would be no need for
> signing binaries. This still leaves open the problem with interpreted
> languages that Martin mentioned, but signed binaries won't prevent that
> either.
> 

Wouldn’t permission controls (groups) and a sudoers list be sufficient to 
give/deny access. How can a non-root, non-sudo user execute any application 
that requires privilege ?

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