From: Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on protecting against PATH interception via user owned profiles
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:42:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434273C6-2355-4517-AA92-38E44611DEB7@covisp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG78ipVVDWvyhNGvxtXxm1J0wXKyXA80iwHv84NLxsk02NeruA@mail.gmail.com>
On 15 Dec 2019, at 00:57, Andrew Parker <andrew.j.c.parker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider Homebrew. The installation script calls sudo. The root shell
> inherits my user's env. Brew them executes numerous commands that can be
> intercepted. My system is now forever compromised.
You should le the folks at Brew know about this.
On my system brew does NOT invoked sudo unless I have to install something like bind, and when it does it does not inherit my environment.
--
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but what kind of rides do they have in
Fabioland?”
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-15 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-15 6:27 Andrew Parker
2019-12-15 7:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-12-15 7:57 ` Andrew Parker
2019-12-15 8:49 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-12-15 17:42 ` Lewis Butler [this message]
2019-12-15 18:57 ` Grant Taylor
2019-12-15 19:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-12-17 13:34 ` Andrew Parker
2019-12-15 8:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-12-15 8:49 ` Andrew Parker
2019-12-15 14:31 ` Andrew Parker
2019-12-15 14:43 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-12-17 13:35 ` Andrew Parker
2019-12-16 4:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
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