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Re: Privelege separation

Subject: Re: Privelege separation
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:31:18 -0500

----- Original Message ----- 
From: eric 
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:46:44 -0500 
To: Renaud Deraison 
Subject: Re: Privelege separation 

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 17:49:54 +0200, Renaud Deraison proclaimed... 

Separating the privileges of anything else won't buy you anything, 
because the plugins need the ability to execute local commands 
(ie: nmap) as root. 

*ding* We have a winner. 

That was my point :) and something I'm working on patching to get 
around. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. 

I'm interested, but confused.  How does one intend to patch an 
application (nessusd) to work around OS restrictions?  Nessusd
runs as root to facilitate the binding to privileged ports, among
other things.  This requirement is mandated by the OS (where 
*ix is concerned).  Or, have I misunderstood you when I read 
that you are working on patching to get around the requirement 
to be root to spawn external processes?

-Ds
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