Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-18 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Neil Watson wrote: > > If Cfengine or similar is maintaining both the sudoers file and the target > scripts that will be sudoed then I think you can reasonable trust them > provided they have gone through enough testing. I just wanted to share that I put sudoers

CFEngine Help: Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-16 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Security Tools and Root Access Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23093,23115#msg-23115 If Cfengine or similar is maintaining both the sudoers file and the target scripts that will be sudoed then I think you can reasonable

CFEngine Help: Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-15 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Security Tools and Root Access Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23093,23107#msg-23107 Tom Tucker Wrote: --- > My company has recently purchased a new security > tool. Fo

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-13 Thread Nick Anderson
>> 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could provide >> root level access at a read only level? I think you could create a non privledged user and with acls provide read access to most if not all things. I think a more interesting question is why you might want to do th

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-13 Thread Diego Zamboni
I did :) >> and then give sudo access to certain people *only* to that program --Diego On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:00 AM, "Daniel V. Klein" wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Diego Zamboni wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >>> 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could >>>

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-13 Thread n...@cmdln.org
"Daniel V. Klein" wrote: On Aug 13, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Diego Zamboni wrote: > Hi Tom, > >> 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could >> provide root level access at a read only level? > > What comes to mind is to put the read-only functionality you want in a > speci

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-13 Thread Daniel V. Klein
On Aug 13, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Diego Zamboni wrote: > Hi Tom, > >> 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could >> provide root level access at a read only level? > > What comes to mind is to put the read-only functionality you want in a > specific program, and then giv

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-13 Thread Diego Zamboni
Hi Tom, > 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could provide > root level access at a read only level? What comes to mind is to put the read-only functionality you want in a specific program, and then give sudo access to certain people *only* to that program. As long

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Abid Khwaja
On Aug 13, 2011, at 5:48 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: >> >> 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could >> provide root level access at a read only level? > > There is no such thing in UNIX. If you have super-us

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Mark
Depends what kind of read access you want. Setuid programs like ps do essentially this on certain data. If you want access to file change info like tripwire then cfengine Nova has a portal where you can view info on the web. Mark On 13 Aug 2011, at 02:47, Tom Tucker wrote: > > My company h

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread n...@cmdln.org
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: > > 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could > provide root level access at a read only level? There is no such thing in UNIX. If you have super-user privs, you can write. > 2) Any recom

Re: Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tom Tucker wrote: > > 1) Are you aware of a wrapper, unique shell or simiar tool that could > provide root level access at a read only level? There is no such thing in UNIX. If you have super-user privs, you can write. > 2) Any recommendations on an open source

Security Tools and Root Access

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Tucker
Please pardon the non-Cfengine related questions. The Cfengine community has been a good source of unix related information in the past. Hopefully they can help me with my current unix related delimma. My company has recently purchased a new security tool. For this tool to operate at maximum ef