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Date:	Mon, 21 May 2012 19:52:55 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	ivo.welch@...il.com
Cc:	ivo.welch@...erson.ucla.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the easy way to sandbox?

On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:28:13 -0700
ivo welch <ivo.welch@...erson.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Suggestion:  introduce a system call that eliminates access to all
> real file systems for the current process.  the only permissible
> interaction would be stdin, stdout, and stderr.
> 
> this would make it very simple to write a sandboxed safe fcgi script.

No it wouldn't - because of things like ptrace.

Sandboxing done right is *hard*. SELinux and the other security setups
can do it. Containers can do interesting stuff in this space. Probably
the distros sometimes need to package the tools for it better.

Take a look at some of the cloud service code people have published.

Alan
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