On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2009-08-16 09:23:37 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> I'm conflicted on this, there's valid points here but also the risks are
> fairly low. As far as disabling agent forwarding, that's trivial to
> re-enable if the box gets rooted.
Yeah, that's true - what Jeremy suggested sounds like a better idea (and
perhaps it could be added to CSI).
> Specifically we're trying to protect against a rooted publictest box
> becoming a password harvester right?
Yup (and SSH agent harvesters as well). The goal is that if a
publictest machine were compromised (since it'd probably be one of the
easier targets), any damage would be confined to that machine as much as
possible.
On a related note, I would like to have a policy of rebuilding the test
boxes more often then we do. Just a thought.
-Mike