Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Re: [asterisk-biz] PBX got Hacked

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 21:58 -0400, Peter Beckman wrote:
> Using SeLinux still relies on one knowing which boxes to check and
> uncheck, what happens when you check or uncheck a box, and how to
> configure it to be secure. Besides, it's overkill if you are running an
> Asterisk box.
>

it also relies upon linux, and not everyone using asterisk is using
linux. Anything that further ties asterisk to a particular operating
system seems counterproductive.

systrace would likely be a better unix alternative than selinux given
what selinux does (generally speaking it adds a 3rd id to the uid/gid
pair).

This still makes it somewhat harder for the windows port of asterisk,
which I dont know how much of that still works, I know that some of it
got broken by other patches after it was working, I do not know if it
has been updated to allow for asterisk to run in windows.

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