* Gregory Stark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Consider a scenario like "package <x> uses <arbitrary function y in an > > untrusted language z>". Exact same concerns arise. > > Well arbitrary function may or may not actually do anything that needs to be > restricted. > > If it does then yes the same concerns arise and the same conclusion reached. > That users should be granted permission to execute it based on local policies. > Certainly granting execute permission to public by default is a bad start in > that regard.
Agreed, and regardless of the sysadmin doing x, y, or z, or what some other package might be doing with untrusted languages, what matters here is what we're doing and the functions we're providing. Best practice is to disable functions by default which aren't safe & secure for users to have access to. If you know of any others in anything we're distributing, please point them out. If there are some in related projects, point those out and ask those projects to be careful with them and encourage them to disable them by default. Thanks, Stephen
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