On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:24:39 +1000 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Not sure why. Just put another module named "ssl" in sys.modules directly. > > You can also monkeypatch the genuine ssl module. > > That has to be done inside the same process. But imagine this > scenario: You have a program that gets invoked as root (or some other > user than yourself), and you're trying to fiddle with what it sees. > You don't have root access, but you can manipulate the file system, to > the extent that your userid has access. What can you do to affect this > other program?
If you're root you shouldn't run untrusted code. See https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-I Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
