On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:32PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > > Hi All, > > Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 000 > from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss > largely due to the use of spyware. > > My question is how secure is FreeBSD (including KDE, GNOME and XFCE) to > attacks, including cracking and spyware. In addition, is there anyway to > prevent a user from executing a program that is not owned by root (i.e. any > program installed by the user), this would prevent spyware being installed > (assuming root has been properly locked down) and subsequently run. > > If anyone, in addition, has answers for Linux and *BSD it would be great to > know as well.
You might want to have a look at using a restricted shell for users. I know bash & pdksh have a restricted mode. A quick look at the manpages for sh & csh suggests they don't. Bash and pdksh are in ports. Can't tell you which is best as I haven't used either in restricted mode. > > Best Regards > > David Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
