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+ <B>nicolas vigier</B>
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+ <I>Wed Nov 10 18:25:38 CET 2010</I>
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+<PRE>On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Luca Berra wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:32:47PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Le mercredi 10 novembre 2010 &#224; 11:55 +0100, nicolas vigier a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Luca Berra wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; 2) Accountability. No idea in France, but here system administratros
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; need to be accounted (*).
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> When someone runs &quot;sudo su -&quot; or something equivalent there is no
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> accountability on what he did after that.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Even more cunning, emacs or vim can run process ( except that vim has a
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> mode where it can prevent it with -Z, do not know for emacs ).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> it is better to use sudoedit for editing files, it will copy the
+</I>&gt;<i> original file to a temporary copy, revert to caller uid, let user edit
+</I>&gt;<i> the file, and move it into place afterwards.
+</I>
+Unless the list of files you are allowed to edit is very limited, it is
+very easy to open a root shell by editing a config file.
+
+&gt;<i> another options is using noexec (sudo will preload a shlib overriding
+</I>&gt;<i> exec calls)
+</I>
+But you have an editor running as root, and you can then edit any file.
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