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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Allowing External Scans Post 302961706 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 2nd of December 2015 03:21:48 PM
Old 12-02-2015
root is a group. Are the files in question all accessible by that group?

What you really want is something akin to sudo, SUDO in HP UX : A small presentation | SYSADMINSHARE.

Then simply write a script that does precisely what is requested, and only that, then create an account that cannot do much else except login and run sudo /path/to/myscript

This way you can control what they are doing, reading only the filelystem in question and not using the root group - which has privilege.

The downside is you will have to install sudo. First. See if it looks like you can use it and are allowed to install it.

Plan B would be to create a chroot jail for that account. And only allow visibility to the mountpoint of that filesystem with readonly access. You will have to supply local copies of whatever commands you/they include in the scanning script. And not allow any write access the script. Ownership has to be other than the account you create.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-02-2015 at 04:26 PM..
 

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heimdal_debug(5)					      BSD File Formats Manual						  heimdal_debug(5)

NAME
heimdal_debug -- how to turn on/off debugging for Kerberos tools DESCRIPTION
The heimdal_debug kerberos frameworks have several knobs for controlling logging. The different framework knobs are: libkrb The Kerberos library, some gss-api Kerberos output ends up here too kcm the kcm library (credentials cache, ntlm client) kdc the kerberos KDC output digest-service the digest service (ntlm server) CONFIGURATION FILE
[logging] <subsystem> = 0-/SYSLOG: and watch syslog for logging information. APPLE MAC OS X
First turn up syslog debugging sudo syslog -c 0 -d then you can see the syslog output in Console.app or by running syslog -w -k org.h5l.asl To enable more extensive debugging logging for each subsystem, use the following commands: Kerberos Library sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Kerberos logging -dict-add krb5 '0-/ASL:' digest-server sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Kerberos logging -dict-add digest-service '0-/ASL:' kcm sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Kerberos logging -dict-add kcm '0-/ASL:' kdc sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Kerberos logging -dict-add kdc '0-/ASL:' MIT Kerberos Shim defaults write com.apple.MITKerberosShim EnableDebugging -bool true GSS-API framework logging sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.GSS DebugLevel -int 10 Other options on Mac OS X Make the admin API pretend to the server even on client sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Kerberos ForceHeimODServerMode -bool true SEE ALSO
gss(5), kerberos(8) HEIMDAL
Sep 30, 2011 HEIMDAL
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