On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:17:11PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:19:31 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> Subject: Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> > > On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 07:19:57AM +, RVP wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
>
> > That something can be written is sure. But I wondered if there was
> > some attempt of some library (in whatever language) or some utility
> > that will "fence" a root user, and will,
On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
That something can be written is sure. But I wondered if there was
some attempt of some library (in whatever language) or some utility
that will "fence" a root user, and will, allow, without modifying
existing (say, as an example, using pkgsrc
At Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:19:31 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
Subject: Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> > On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 15:23:24 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> > > The typical example is
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 15:23:24 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> > The typical example is say, with pkgsrc (or any kind of packages
> > system). One wants to build unprivileged, but installation may be
> > privileged. So instead of
On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 15:23:24 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> The typical example is say, with pkgsrc (or any kind of packages
> system). One wants to build unprivileged, but installation may be
> privileged. So instead of running as non root and having to enter the
> password each time the
At Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:00:24 +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
Subject: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged
>
> Starting some operation as common user (for example compiling/building)
> before promoting to privileged (generally root) by su'ing or sudo'ing
> (for example to
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 06:26:53AM -0800, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> As RVP mentioned, this is a SMOP, but if you're looking for an out of the
> box utility, checkout djb's setuidgid (available in
> pkgsrc/sysutils/daemontools) https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setuidgid.html
Thanks. I will take a look.
As RVP mentioned, this is a SMOP, but if you're looking for an out of the
box utility, checkout djb's setuidgid (available in
pkgsrc/sysutils/daemontools) https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setuidgid.html
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 04:10, RVP wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
>
> >
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:10:07PM +, RVP wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
>
> > But does somebody know of an established program or library that allows
> > to start a process as root and to automatically downgrade rights for
> > tasks (I mean identified chunks of
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
But does somebody know of an established program or library that allows
to start a process as root and to automatically downgrade rights for
tasks (I mean identified chunks of whatever code) that do not require
privileges?
You mean toggling
Starting some operation as common user (for example compiling/building)
before promoting to privileged (generally root) by su'ing or sudo'ing
(for example to install) is common.
But does somebody know of an established program or library that allows
to start a process as root and to automatically
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