Re: security scenario

[Johan De Meersman <johan () ops skynet be>]

Trevor Cushen wrote:

> anyway).  They then schedule overnight a dd of the system disk to a disk
> in their machine over the network (very easy to do)  What priviledges do
> they need??  I must check this but I have a feeling they will have
> access to /dev files and also the /bin files where netcat and dd are (or
> /sbin).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but system disk mounting is done as root, so I 
believe /dev/hd* needs only be readable for root - all vfs-level 
accesses pass through kernelspace.



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