ACL removal day?!

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jun 20 15:22:28 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:18 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:56:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 1. He needs to be a Linux user
> > 2. He needs to be deeply familiar with the Fedora build-system.
> > 3. He will have to crack your passwords/ssh-phrases
> 
> All false
> 
> He needs to be a 
> 1.	Trojan script
> 2.	Have been scripted to attack Fedora, or generically attack cvs
> 3.	Steal your ssh keys automatically via patched tools

Or a man-in-the middle attack ... in such cases ACL's won't help at all.

> Its a minor perl problem to produce such a tool and just wait for a Fedora
> developer to catch it, then it can merge itself from one project into the
> next and infect the next person whol builds it on their own box and so on
> and so forth.

Ralf





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