making secure limitations for non-root users

[Tyler Littlefield]

hello,
the service is going to be a mud based service, there are many muds out 
there, and people might install patches, etc.

Thanks,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Moore" <tom at tomstroubleshooting.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 3:14 PM
Subject: RE: making secure limitations for non-root users


>I don't quite remember the name of a kernel patch that has some things in 
>it
> that will allow you to tighten down your system far better than the normal
> kernel when it comes to limiting users.
>
> First off, you shouldn't allow users to run server type processes unless 
> you
> have too. You should run them, then grant the user access to read log 
> files
> from the processes and such. This is so that you know all services /
> processes that are running on your machine.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:40 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: making secure limitations for non-root users
>
> Hello,
> I've got a quick couple of questions:
> First, I'd like to allow users to connect and host a mud on my system.
> I would, however like to limit them in disk space (I can figure that one
> out), in port usage (not sure how to do this one, would like to limit what
> ports they can open), programs they can run, and also what they can view 
> on
> the system.
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
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