10 Oct
2014
10 Oct
'14
4:48 a.m.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
It can replace annoying init.d scripts, that are deceptively hard to write, often are very buggy and suffer from various race conditions.
Also init scripts often allow non-root daemons to have access to the same tty that is used for the sysadmin shell. That means if an attacker can compromise a daemon at startup (EG replace programs it runs at start before detaching from the tty) then they can push characters into the root keyboard buffer. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/