outgoing port block on fedorapeople.org

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 06:20 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "JvM" == Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> writes:
> 
> JvM> Is any outbound NEW connection supposed to be used from
> JvM> fedorapeople.org accept maybe for a few named sockets on trusted
> JvM> remote hosts?
> 
> Well, some might think it reasonable to pull content to fedorapeople
> (wget, scp run on fedorapeople pulling from remote sites) instead of
> forcing content to be pushed.  Which would argue for outbound http and
> ssh ports, I guess.  Should be easy to just say no to that kind of
> thing, though, if the intent is to lock it down.
> 
> I also wonder if mounting user-writable filesystems as noexec would be
> reasonable.
> 

they are noexec - the user uses a python based irc bot and just ran it
using:
python scriptname.

-sv