-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne, > It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be > possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target > Wine, I don't see that happening. The problem is that when you are > running Windows programs, you can also run things like VB scripts. But > the damage is limmited to your user, and not the entire system, as it > would be under Windows. One way to limit things would be to have a > different user that you log in as to run Wine. If your normal user is a > member of the Wine user's group, and you have a group writable > directory, sharing data between the two is easy. You can access this as > your normal user, but the Wine user can not access anything in your > normal user's directory. > > Mikkel That sounds reasonable precautions. On a related issue, then, is it possible to force any file written to a specific directory to have the permissions related to that directory? IOW, could you designate one directory to be for the use of group 'wine', and any file written to that directory would automatically be written as belonging to group 'wine'? I don't want this to turn into a complete hijack, but security related to wine would, presumably, also be of interest to the original poster. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBzouOkFAvMr/nNX8RAteiAJ4sQ3IQV/abZ5xMRcSdabyfyreuQQCfYwOG R6JNZznQeUHMYv1dZUF9LLg= =Iuzf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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