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| Subject: | Re: Privelege separation |
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| 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 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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