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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:01:10 -0600
From:      jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
To:        dyson@freebsd.org
Cc:        rob@xs1.simplex.nl (Rob Simons), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q: system specific binaries
Message-ID:  <199611151601.QAA05023@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <199611151543.KAA01199@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Nov 15, 1996 10:43:10 -0500
References:  <199611151329.OAA00724@xs1.simplex.nl> <199611151543.KAA01199@dyson.iquest.net>

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> > Does anyone have any experience with customising FreeBSD so that only
> > binaries which are compiled on a system itself will actually run on
> > that system ?
> > So the local compiler has to give a key to each binary when it's 
> > compiled, and when executed there'd be a check for that key. ?
> > That way only people who have access to the compiler may generate 
> > binaries, and no 'foreign' binaries will be executed by the syetem.
> > 
> > If this is too easy to break, is there perhaps a way to specify
> > from which directories binaries may be executed ?
> > 
> Perhaps, formulate a system whereby the flags bits on a file are used
> in some way...  Note that I am not talking about the "protection" bits,
> but there is another group of interesting things called flags bits that
> can be placed only under the control of the kernel.  Just a thought.
> 
> (Perhaps an "annoint" command???)

Now, why does this remind me of nettrek's "blessed" binaries?
--
Jonathan



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