Re: "Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-31 Thread Stephan Wehner
Ok, thanks a lot for your patience with this ! > The kinds of attacks you're talking about--bad emails, trojan web pages, etc. may seem like remote attacks, but from an OS standpoint, they're really not: they originate someplace else, but they trick users into doing something locally, and they nee

Re: "Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-26 Thread Jay Savage
On 5/26/05, Stephan Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your reply. -- Are you saying there is too much > overhead or the end result is not worth any overhead?? > > Why bother chrooting apache, for example, and not leaving it with your > recommended systrace? > > My question is m

Re: "Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-26 Thread Stephan Wehner
Thanks a lot for your reply. -- Are you saying there is too much overhead or the end result is not worth any overhead?? Why bother chrooting apache, for example, and not leaving it with your recommended systrace? My question is motivated by exploits through Internet access; it seems to me server

Re: "Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-25 Thread Mike
Stephan Wehner wrote: > Mainly I'm worried about running a lot of user applications which > connect to the Internet. But I can't estimate the overhead. > choose wisely your applications and systrace(1) would most likely give you some extra security.

Re: "Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-24 Thread Stephan Wehner
> Please don't reply to a message when starting a new thread. Ok. > What problem are you trying to solve? If the user is chrooted into the > home directory, what programs would they run? No, I had in mind all home directories set below an extra root: /separate/usr/... /separate/etc... and /se

Re: "Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Shockley
Stephan Wehner wrote: Does it make sense to run the "Desktop" (e.g., X11 / Gnome / clients) chroot'ed? Non-technical users can live without all the rest. Please don't reply to a message when starting a new thread. What problem are you trying to solve? If the user is chrooted into the home di

"Desktop" chrooted

2005-05-24 Thread Stephan Wehner
Does it make sense to run the "Desktop" (e.g., X11 / Gnome / clients) chroot'ed? Non-technical users can live without all the rest. Stephan