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From:
Florian Obser <florian@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: Investigating adding functionality to doas
To:
tech <tech@openbsd.org>
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Date:
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:05:19 +0100

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  • Florian Obser:

    Investigating adding functionality to doas

  • Geoff Steckel:

    Investigating adding functionality to doas

  • On 2024-11-29 16:39 UTC, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
    > Or use a special binary based on doas which is _just_ used for these
    > "internal" elevations and permits only them.
    
    I have come to the conclusion (some time ago) that you can't
    restrictively elevate privileges in a safe way.
    
    So moment you let someone run a program with doas (or sudo) you might as
    well just give them a root shell.
    
    -- 
    In my defence, I have been left unsupervised.
    
    
    
  • Florian Obser:

    Investigating adding functionality to doas

  • Geoff Steckel:

    Investigating adding functionality to doas