[sudo-users] How to prevent privilege escalation attacks through sudo?

David wizzardx at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 07:25:21 EST 2007


Something which might help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key

Maybe sudo can be setup to only run if the user in that term has
recently hit the SAK? Maybe combine this with a pid check, along with
more paranoid restrictions on TTY tickets.

Also SAK would only work if the user is physically at the machine he's
running sudo on.



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