David Woodhouse wrote:
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> --- Comment #2 from David Woodhouse<[email protected]>   2010-12-11 
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> I found a bug in that patch; we can't just refrain from setting 
> config_changed.
> That flag is used for more than the decision of whether to drop privs. It's
> used in child.c too.
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> I think I'm going to end up doing a new config option TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIXES
> which is a colon-separated list of acceptable prefixes (or full filenames).
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Presuming there is at least one known and published default, the rest is up to:

- privs on where that/those files is/are

- admin's choice of obfuscation, if any


IOW - helpful, certainly.

Panacea? Probably not. Just a higher bar.

But still a good idea, IMHO

Bill

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