| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:03:34 +0900 From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp> To: andy753421@...il.com Cc: linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Privilege dropping security module Andy Spencer wrote: > > And what do you propose as an interesting use case for dpriv? > > I think the two most important things about dpriv is that it can be used > by ordinary users and that is can create policies programmatically. > > Being able to use dpriv as a non root user is pretty strait forward. For > example, a user of a multi-user system may want to try some untrusted > code without risking access to the rest of the system: You need to add some quota, or malicious/careless users can consume all kernel memory and crash the system... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists