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Re: SE Linux play machine



On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:09:39PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:13, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:41:15AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 09:29, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > > > very, very strange.
> > >
> > > Well, at least it answers the question: Can god create a rock so heavy
> > > even he can't lift it? The answer appears to be "yes".
> >
> > Strange indeed.  I logged in for the heck and saw someone trying to
> > shutdown the machine.  My console spits out standard warning messages
> > but the system never shutdown itself.
> 
> The shutdown program first sends out a message and then tells init to 
> shutdown by writing to /dev/initctl.  It has permissions to write to ttys, 
> but not to /dev/initctl...

Nice and sweet security :)

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 Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA


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