Re: [Tails-dev] Please test feature/unsafe-browser

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Author: anonym
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please test feature/unsafe-browser
04/19/2012 01:58 PM, anonym:
> 04/18/2012 12:15 PM, intrigeri:
>> Hi,
>>
>> anonym wrote (17 Apr 2012 12:12:24 GMT) :
>>> I've implemented this (and changed some necessary application
>>> configurations) in feature/firewall_lockdown.
>>
>> Why allow access to system DNS from the htp user?
>> Is this user used for anything else than running wget?
>>
>> Why allow access to system DNS from the proxy user?
>
> Yeah, you're right, I didn't think far enough in these two cases. Three
> cases, actually; for the same reason the root user doesn't need system
> DNS access either (assuming its only networking use case is apt-get).


The branch has been rebased with this change and some whitespace fixes.