On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:18:31PM -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> a setuid wrapper opens up all kinds of issues.  A previous attempt at an
> http interfaces was shot down for that reason.  You don't want normal users
> changing images, as it means that any normal user on that box can change the
> root password that will end up on all the other boxes (scary by a lot).
> 
> I think a much better approach is to document how one might set up sudo to
> allow for use of SystemImager and Imagemanip by a small set of priviledged 
> accounts on the machine.

Oh duh, yeah, that's a great idea.  Please ignore my stupid request for a 
setuid wrapper.  :)

As for "normal users" working on images, that's basically the design goal 
of "imagemanip", which has another set of permissions for which users can 
work on which images.

It looks like I can use the SUDO_USER env variable to figure out who ran
it for the image perm checking.  Okay.  I've modified the code to work
with 'sudo' instead of my wrapper.

Here's what I have to check in:

? etc/imagemanip.conf
? etc/imagemanip.perm
? sbin/imagemanip
M CHANGE.LOG
M CREDITS
M Makefile
M systemimager.spec
M doc/man/Makefile

Shall I go ahead and commit?

-- 
Kees Cook
Open Source Development Lab
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