Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:42:59 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Forrest Houston <fhouston@east.isi.edu> Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, "Oulman, Jamie" <JOulman@iphrase.com>, "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp Message-ID: <20010514204259.A33451@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.10.10105141416260.-559341@rosencrantz.east.isi.edu>; from fhouston@east.isi.edu on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:18:16PM -0400 References: <20010514200927.A32697@student.uu.se> <Pine.WNT.4.10.10105141416260.-559341@rosencrantz.east.isi.edu>
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:18:16PM -0400, Forrest Houston wrote: > The problem is further complicated though when you want the user to have > root access. We have some people around here who need/want total access > to their machine. However there is still the concern of the NFS > mounts. What do you do in these circumstances? > If those people have their own, personal, machines then you solve it by not letting any other machines trust the 'compromised' machines. Only export that persons homedirectory via NFS to that machine. Do not allow any other directories to be mounted. Be careful with accepting logins/connections from it. Basically treat it as if it was some unknown machine out on the Big Bad Internet. And make sure that the root password for those machines is different from that on other machines. It is usually a bad idea to give users root access if you don't trust them. If you still have to give them root access then isolate their machines so that they cannot access other machines. > Thanks > Forrest > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > > > If a user can login as root or su to root then they can (almost by > > definition) do whatever they want. The solution is therefore to prevent > > users getting root access in the first place since once they get it it is > > too late to do anything about it. > > First of, all make sure that only people you trust are in the wheel group and > > know the root password. This will prevent other people from doing an su to root. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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