Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Michael Stone: Quoting Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What perl-suid should do is check the mountoptions for the filesystem on which the script resides and abort if that was mounted with nosuid. Should be quite simple actually.. But that's still not general enough.

Re: non-us.debian.org OK?

1999-01-31 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sun, January 31 1999, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Previously Amos Shapira wrote: | Can anyone send me a working configuration for non-us? | |deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US slink non-US Thanks. This works. The ftp method URL's someone sent me are not recognized by

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread Kevin Dalley
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I choose freedom, it's one that summarises it all, and trying to find an animal that, universally, would give the impression of freedom, I limited the choice to two bird species: - eagles, - hawks Freedom or death?

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Chip Salzenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): According to Michael Stone: Quoting Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What perl-suid should do is check the mountoptions for the filesystem on which the script resides and abort if that was mounted with nosuid. Should be quite simple

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Michael Stone: Quoting Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What perl-suid should do is check the mountoptions for the filesystem on which the script resides and abort if that was mounted with nosuid. Should be quite simple

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Michael Stone: Quoting Chip Salzenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): According to Michael Stone: Quoting Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What perl-suid should do is check the mountoptions for the filesystem on which the script resides and abort if that was mounted with

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a writes: I choose freedom, it's one that summarises it all, and trying to find an animal that, universally, would give the impression of freedom, I limited the choice to two bird species: - eagles, Fish eaters. Also symbolic of the Roman Republic and the

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: The code exists to check the mount options relevant to an open file. It's just a Small Matter of Programming to integrate that into the Perl source code, and disable emultation of setuid scripts when the 'nosuid' mount option is set. But, then

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brian White wrote: You know, I don't see this as grave. It means that a user can effectively export to the world any file readable by www-data. In general, this means only things that can be read by public. So, the user can't intentionally export anything that he/she couldn't

Re: [Waaaaay Off-Topic] Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-01-31 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: We could then have conversations like this with our users: CART DRIVER: Bring out your dead! LARGE MAN: Here's one! CART DRIVER: Ninepence. BODY:I'm not dead! I'm waiting for someone not to know where that's

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:42:06PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. That's been taken... -- I'm working in the dark here. Yeah well rumor has it you do your best work in the dark. -- Earth: Final Conflict

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Jules Bean: On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: The code exists to check the mount options relevant to an open file. It's just a Small Matter of Programming to integrate that into the Perl source code, and disable emultation of setuid scripts when the 'nosuid' mount

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Jules Bean: On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Every OS has a different set of mount options that may or may not be relevant to setuid security. I don't see what 'higher level' would be useful. The correct solution to this, surely, is for the mount nosuid to

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JH == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JH Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Yes! Lets make it a black horse on yellow background and a red frame. Vrooom vroom. :-) Ciao, Martin

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Jules Bean: On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Every OS has a different set of mount options that may or may not be relevant to setuid security. I don't see what 'higher level' would be useful. The correct

Re: Do not pull a package!

1999-01-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 17.12.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey A critical bug on an unimportant package is a sure bet to get that package Joey pulled from the distirbution

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) wrote on 31.01.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Previously Michael Stone wrote: perl-suid 31904 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Secuity hole with pe= rl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux] [13] (Darren Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com ) =20 I'm not sure

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote on 31.01.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 29360: point 1) is an issue for the release notes; I can't retroactively patch an old prerm; You could, but it would be fairly ugly, and I'm not sure it's worth it. Startegy: pre-depend on a package that does the

Re: dpkg port to HP-UX

1999-01-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdale Garbee) wrote on 26.01.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies. It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line version. Yes, you can drive

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread James Troup
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the uploads? I often depend on the announcements to alert me to new versions in Incoming. In the new setup, the announcements won't come until the package

Re: suid-perl

1999-01-31 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Jules Bean: On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Consider that I may wish to mount a filesystem nosuid for the purpose of making a tape backup. Would I want the suid bits turned off in the backup image? I think not. Why not just mount it somewhere only you can get

<    1   2