Re: Debian suggestion on File Deletion

--On December 12, 2007 12:19:28 PM -0800 David de Hilario Richards <boujin@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Hello Debian OS developers,
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> I have a suggestion for the Debian Project:
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> The system/administration section of the OS is password protected. This
> is a good protection against viruses etc that would attack the OS but
> maybe the Debian developers could include password protecting Emptying
> the Trash. So when you delete files, they would be sent to the Trash as
> always but if you want to empty it, a user password would be necessary.
> This would prevent harm from viruses even though I understand that Linux
> has very few of them.
>
> The same idea could be applied to the Terminal. The Terminal would ask
> for a password every time you would want to delete a file.
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> To my knowledge, today the only way of protecting files in a similar way
> is to create different user profiles with different permissions.

To actually do that requires a fundamental change in the way the kernel implements access controls. SELinux can do these sorts of audits and preventions on a process by process basis. So it's already there, you just need to deploy it and set it up to suit your needs/environment.

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> Hope you will take my suggestion into account.
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> Regards,
> David

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