sudo security concerns ?

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 13:38 -0800, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:47:11 -0800, Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> > Is there a plan to integrate SELinux support in the future?  The Fedora
> > people are really plugging that.  People will look for it.  
>
> Would you please be more specific ?  IIRC , a lot of SELinux
> technology is integrated into the v2.6 kernel .

I am not an SElinux expert by any means.  I've not taken the time to
learn very much about it yet.  This is the project I was referring to:

 http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/selinux/

I plan to spend some time learning more about SElinux in the future...
my wonder is whether there are people with Ubuntu who know enough about
it to bring it in and support it, and if it's worth doing.

 Q: Would it improve the 'sudo' situation, or prevent stack smashing
holes from allowing unauthorized access?

Also of interest, for those running public access computing labs, is:

 http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/


I think they also have a braille terminal enabled installer option.

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