Thus spake Kees Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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?

Go for it, Kees!

-Brian


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