Need some security advice for systemtap

[David Smith]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> David Smith schrieb:
> 
> (...)
> 
>> Some basic ideas about how we can allow users without sudo access to 
>> run "blessed" scripts/modules can be seen at 
>> <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4523>,
>>
>> So, I'm looking for thoughts, criticisms, pointers, etc. to do this in 
>> a  manner that won't allow a system to be easily compromised.  We're 
>> in the fairly early stages of this idea, and I'm looking for direction 
>> before heading down the wrong road.
> 
> Am I right? Is it security based on md5sum?

That was the basic idea.  It would be easy enough to substitute a better 
hash function - I'm guessing one of the shaXXXsum would be more robust.

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