UNSCRIBE

2007-05-18 Thread Tobias von Keler


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Bug#400247: casper: non-standard mount option syntax is confusing

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
FYI: fixed in live-initramfs SVN.

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error with persistent home

2007-05-18 Thread Michal Rucinski
I have noticed a bug while using persistent home directory with USB pendrive.
I have booted my computer using persistent statement (live vga=794
toram persistent). Pendrive was labeled using e2label as a casper-rw.
Everything was good untill I have connected to the running system the
second pendrive also labeled as casper-rw containing a very similar
directories structure.
At that moment system became completely crazy. As a result - many
broken files and both pendrives had to be reformatted.

Has anybody noticed such a failure?

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Security risks?

2007-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having created a live Debian for a USB stick with 'make-live' using among 
others the '--username  usblive' option I noticed that the USB stick always 
boots into the 'usblive' user account. And any command which require root 
privileges are to be preceded by the 'sudo'.

Questions: 
Is this really a secure setup?
Why doesn't 'sudo' prompt for a root password?
How exactly was it configured so as not to even  prompt for a password for the 
normal user after bootup?
And how exactly was it configured so as not to have a root account? 

Is all the magic done via the /etc/sudoers file only?

J.Neuhoff

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Re: Security risks?

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is this really a secure setup?

no :)

well, better.. not yet.

 Why doesn't 'sudo' prompt for a root password?

because we configured it like this.

 How exactly was it configured so as not to even  prompt for a password for 
 the 
 normal user after bootup?
 And how exactly was it configured so as not to have a root account? 

look at 10adduser resp. 15autlogin in
live-initramfs/scripts/live-bottom/ resp. casper/scripts/casper-bottom/.

 Is all the magic done via the /etc/sudoers file only?

yep.

Today, I've added 'noautologin', 'noxautologin' and 'nosudo' boot
parameters to disable the respective features in live-initramfs in SVN.

Will think of a 'clever' way to have --user-password and --root-password
or similar in live-helper.

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Re: Security risks?

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:59:22 +0200
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Is this really a secure setup?
 
 no :)

True.  But it's not as bad as it might at first appear.  You can't login
remotely to a livecd system.  And even if you were to start an ssh server,
you wouldn't be able to login to an account with no password set on it.
Basically, anyone with physical access to the machine would have root on
it unless the livecd contains software that is remotely exploitable, and
if that's the case, you have bigger problems than just not requiring a
password for sudo.

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live-helper 1.0~a9-1 MIGRATED to testing

2007-05-18 Thread Debian testing watch
FYI: The status of the live-helper source package
in Debian's testing distribution has changed.

  Previous version: (not in testing)
  Current version:  1.0~a9-1

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