owl-users - Re: sudo: why not?

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:34:55 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sudo: why not?

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:45:26PM +0200, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
> The difference betwenn normal and rsbac systems:
> 
> - normal kernel doesn't check for setuid()s
> - normally only su itself checks for a correct password, it does not
>   check whether the user is allowed to start su
> - normally su allows _anybody_ to change to _anybody else's_ id, rsbac
>   only allows predefined changes

None of these have anything to do with the problem I've described.

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