On 8/30/06, Steve Fairhead <steve@fivetrees.com> wrote:
> Jim Weir asked:
> >> Is running svn as 'root' a security risk? <<
>
> (From context, you're talking server-side.)
>
> In terms of general Unix security, yes. It's unwise to give any user or
> process more permissions than needed for the job in hand. (Very condensed
> version of several tomes on Unix security.)
>
> Consider: dog forbid that there should be a buffer overflow bug in svnserve.
> A cracker could then craft an attack vector, and take over your box, as
> root. All your bases are belong to them, as they say.
>
> I'm generalising hugely and necessarily; but it's pretty easy to adduser an
> svn or svnowner, and to chown the repository. System security is only as
> good as its weakest link, and that's often the administrator.
when I posted my last reply I did not see your message. there seems to be delay
somewhere in either Google's MXens or tigris.org mailing list server(s).
any opinions?
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Received on Wed Aug 30 23:03:04 2006