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Date:      Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:21:59 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Thomas Krause <freebsd-isp@chef-ingenieur.de>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: preventing a user to start a process
Message-ID:  <42E549E7.4070606@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <42E54654.1090705@chef-ingenieur.de>
References:  <42E54654.1090705@chef-ingenieur.de>

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Thomas Krause wrote:
> Hello,
> is it possible to bar a user (www) from starting a process?
> I've a irc daemon running under the uid www. I think
> this was done by php. What would be the best way to prevent
> this (php should be remain usable)? I've installed ipfw rules,
> but this doesn't prevent the starting of the process.

Change the permissions on the file to not allow world execution?

chmod 750 /path/to/irc-daemon

and make sure it isn't owner by www user, and the www user is not in the 
group that owns the daemon.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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