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Re: Need some security advice for systemtap


Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
David Smith schrieb:

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Some basic ideas about how we can allow users without sudo access to run "blessed" scripts/modules can be seen at <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4523>,

So, I'm looking for thoughts, criticisms, pointers, etc. to do this in a manner that won't allow a system to be easily compromised. We're in the fairly early stages of this idea, and I'm looking for direction before heading down the wrong road.

Am I right? Is it security based on md5sum?

That was the basic idea. It would be easy enough to substitute a better hash function - I'm guessing one of the shaXXXsum would be more robust.


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