On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:42:11PM -0500, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
>     Scott's real issue is that the exec*() system calls will happily
> execute things in situations he doesn't consider safe.  If you try to
> fix it somewhere else, you might reduce the problem footprint, but
> there will still be plenty of situations where user B can impersonate
> user A because of a mistake rooted in A's cron usage.
> 
>     Maybe SE-Linux has some story for this.

Systrace can do all sorts of things to neat things in this area.  It's like 
ACLs for syscalls.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/

-b

--
the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
                                               <aristotle>

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