From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:12:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911151812.21135.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hdp3t9$4n5$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sunday 15 November 2009 16:40:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/15/2009 11:22 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > SELinux allows to spread the tasks root needs to do or can do accross
> > several roles. Of course, if only one single person has root access to
> > the system this doesn't make sense. But we're talking about cases where
> > several people (incl. the malicious attacker) have root access. So you
> > can very well configure a (SE-)Linux system so that "root" can't do
> > everything.
>
> So how do you get your machine back if you forbid yourself to change its
> configuration then?
reboot|power down|pull power plug out|whatever and edit kernel config line to
not laod selinux
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-15 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 20:01 [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI Mick
2009-11-12 20:39 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 20:56 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 21:34 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 21:46 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:15 ` Mick
2009-11-13 15:39 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 22:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:18 ` Mick
2009-11-12 23:08 ` Iain Buchanan
2009-11-13 2:45 ` Zeerak Waseem
2009-11-14 0:24 ` Mick
2009-11-14 7:01 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 7:07 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 19:32 ` Mick
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 5:15 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 7:44 ` Dale
2009-11-15 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 12:47 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 15:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-15 10:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-14 9:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 10:12 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 15:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 19:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 22:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 9:22 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-15 14:40 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-15 16:12 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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