Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764349AbXHOPNT (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:13:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760174AbXHOPNK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:13:10 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:34029 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758483AbXHOPNI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:13:08 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: gshan Cc: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: do_coredump and O_NOFOLLOW In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:03:39 +0800." <46C2B35B.5080709@alcatel-lucent.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <46C2B35B.5080709@alcatel-lucent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1187190778_3177P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:12:58 -0400 Message-ID: <5140.1187190778@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1187190778_3177P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:03:39 +0800, gshan said: > Bernd, Thanks for your reply. I don't think there are any hostile users > on the system. So it's relatively of security. I didn't hear of coreadm > tool before, Linux will become more powerful with coreadm. Well, *right now* you don't have hostile users. However, that can change, if a user's password gets compromised (often because they left it on a stick-it note on the monitor), or if somebody is running Firefox and accidentally hits a malicious site that exploits a Firefox bug, or if one of your company's employees didn't get the raise they wanted, so they're quitting and planning to kill the system on their way out the door.... --==_Exmh_1187190778_3177P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGwxf6cC3lWbTT17ARAvARAJ9fMK1nRTt7QEfE4BUWsQUTSBEmuQCgwAaB neGO0XN9sUoGcXGT9TmBYY0= =9wlH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1187190778_3177P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/