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| DATE | 2004-09-04 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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> > Make IE root only to use. chroot the networking DLLs.
>
> What would that buy me?
>
Dinner and a Movie
You provide the women, however
>
> You can do this on any machine with an inet stack.
> Don't be ridiculous.
>
Say again. I just want to be sure, we are talking about the super damean?
If so, how are you going to get your program into inet?
Ruben
> I'll assume you're talking about needing to have ROOT access to listen
> on port 25, this is a WEAKNESS of Unix security. This action should
> require 'port 25 opener' access, not 'God' access.
>
Thats not a weaken, but I agree. There should be another user to open up
the port. Ideally, I'd like the kernel to allow any access to a port based
on a simply configuration file.
1:staff,root,nobody:ruben,billy
2:staff,root,nobody:ruben
20:root,nobody:ruben
2:
> > When you load a program up in Windows, can it run as Nobody, nogroup?
>
> Yes, and you can actually do many more interesting things besides.
>
> > Or is it stuck running only as you?
>
> You can set a program to run as another user.
> Why don't you look into it a bit before challenging me?
>
> It's a lot easier to spout bullshit than to actually learn
> about it, I guess. But learning is how we grow...
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/secauthz/security/access_control.asp
>
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