From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8PM7CrT025092 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from crisium.vnl.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8PM7BAk027346 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:07:11 GMT Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:07:08 +0100 From: Dale Amon To: Russell Coker Cc: "Christopher J. PeBenito" , SELinux Mail List Subject: Re: Remove unrestricted_admin Message-ID: <20040925220708.GB15912@vnl.com> References: <200409211526.37810.russell@coker.com.au> <200409252039.01196.russell@coker.com.au> <1096119005.11665.21.camel@gorn.pebenito.net> <200409260121.10665.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw" In-Reply-To: <200409260121.10665.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:21:10AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Corner cases that happen to be a regular part of any sys-admin's job. I massively agree. Lots of people do 'ghosting'; lots of people back up entire disk images before doing something dangerous. Now I've got ways around a lot of the problems anyway because I've a root boot floppy I use. Boot a machine off an nfs root; mount a Real Big Disk over nfs, and then dd the whole frigging host system disk to the destination system where it can be worked on.=20 Although it is not my primary use for this (mostly I do R&D), think forensics too. Think of all the various tools in use for setting up a master image and dupping it to N other machines. Also, dd with a decent block speed is an awesomely=20 fast way to back up a disk. --=20 ------------------------------------------------------ Dale Amon amon@islandone.org +44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin "Have Laptop, Will Travel" ------------------------------------------------------ --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBVewLZHES7UL0zXERAoBLAJ4rGFboGobidDL6rSWT9GMGSsqavQCfcbd+ Q63an3+QVzulE5bHHsN3Qes= =HLHj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw-- -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.