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- From: smw@wikki.b17c.ingr.com (mike wixson)
- Subject: How can I secure an external executable?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.204528.12332@b8.b8.ingr.com>
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- Reply-To: smw@wikki.b17c.ingr.com
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:45:28 GMT
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- We have an application that we are developing that requires remote file
- access using NFS. Since root access is needed to [u]mount a remote file
- system, and since we do not want our application to run as root, we have
- made a separate executable that runs with the set-user-ID bit so that it can
- run as root in order to [u]mount our remote file systems. This external
- application is accessed through a system command and we realize that this
- could create a security problem and would like to secure it some how.
- Are there any simple solutions?
-
- --
- mike wixson smw@wikki.b17c.ingr.com
-
- "You cannot always go by expert opinion. A turkey, if you ask a turkey,
- should be stuffed with grasshoppers, grit and worms."
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