Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:16:52 +0200 From: Erik Alexander =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F8kken?= <eal@mnemonic.no> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removable media security in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030610071652.GJ561@mnemonic.no> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030610010227.02a68ed0@localhost> References: <200306092254.QAA10240@lariat.org> <200306092254.QAA10240@lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20030610010227.02a68ed0@localhost>
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On 10.06 01:04, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:21 PM 6/9/2003, Doug Barton wrote: > > >On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > > > >> Allowing the user to use sudo would effectively be giving him/her root > >> privileges, which we explicitly don't want to do. > > > >No it wouldn't. You can specify the commands that you allow each user to > >run. > > Ah, but letting the user mount and unmount things effectively lets that > person do anything he or she wants, by switching around what's mounted > at key mountpoints. > Or you can limit which mount points the user actually has the privileges to change, in sudoers: %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom /erik
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