On Tue, Jan 14, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote:
I understand that. My suggestion pertained more to the documentation than
the implementation on the grounds that the names are familiar to Unix
admins and developers.
Yes, you're right, the
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:39:08PM +0100, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote:
I understand that. My suggestion pertained more to the documentation than
the implementation on the grounds that the names
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Have I done something wrong, or missing something? It seems to me to be a
majority security hole in a system when crontab executes the
%{l_prefix}/etc/rc scripts as root, and that script can then execute other
programs with root priviledges where the
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
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The general issue with the four user/group ids in OpenPKG I've now
tried to document at http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html#uid-security
The situation you mention is correct: someone with management user/group
(owner of your
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:59:10AM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote:
[...]
May I suggest that this would be a bit clearer with some more meaningful
names, and roles. I'm still not absolutely clear about the use of the
opkg-n user.
opkgThis
Have I done something wrong, or missing something? It seems to me to be a
majority security hole in a system when crontab executes the
%{l_prefix}/etc/rc scripts as root, and that script can then execute other
programs with root priviledges where the rc script and package scripts are
writeable by
