Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > 3. Access is determined using "doap" files > 4. If you're not in the doap file of that module, you cannot upload It's pretty common for people not listed as maintainers in the doap files to do releases, especially for the lesser maintaine

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
I think it's nice that currently we can upload win32 and osx builds of gnome modules/apps and have them available on gnome servers, if we take away shell access then perhaps the install-module/ftpadmin script should be enhanced to allow this (afaik the only way currently is to manually place a f

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 03:19:07PM +, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:47 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > My thoughts to secure this is: > > 1. Get rid of shell for ideally everyone (maintainers, release team, > > etc) > > 2. Uploads are done using: > >a. rsync over

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:47 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > Loads of people currently have access to master.gnome.org as to upload > tarballs. This is currently done by handing out shell access to these > people. > > If any of the 350+ has their machine compromised, someone could easily > use that to

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:05:14PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > >a. rsync might be annoying / unreliable > >b. don't think you can delete easily with rsync > >c. more annoying than e.g. sftp or scp > > Talk to H Peter Anvin about the new kernel.org tools, they may do what > you need as wel

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:47 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > Loads of people currently have access to master.gnome.org as to upload > tarballs. This is currently done by handing out shell access to these > people. > > If any of the 350+ has their machine compromised, someone could easily > use that to

Re: RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Cox
> If any of the 350+ has their machine compromised, someone could easily > use that to reach shell on master.gnome.org. I don't want that to be > possible. If you have 350+ users with hosts and some of them were shared wth kernel.org in the past I'd suggest "When" or "Probably" not "If" >a. r

RFC: Securing maintainer uploads to master.gnome.org

2011-11-10 Thread Olav Vitters
Loads of people currently have access to master.gnome.org as to upload tarballs. This is currently done by handing out shell access to these people. If any of the 350+ has their machine compromised, someone could easily use that to reach shell on master.gnome.org. I don't want that to be possible.