From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Russell Coker <rcoker@redhat.com>
Cc: SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: FAM uses seteuid and setegid
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:24:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040520162445.GM8810@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405210114.53119.rcoker@redhat.com>
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:14:53AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:15, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> > so, famd is designed to "effectively" set its user and group ids,
> > such that any file access is done as these, whilst still remaining
> > actually running as root.
>
> Famd is badly designed for security. There has been talk of replacing that
> functionality with other code, the general concept is that for a local FAM
> you just have the first process to call it fork off a child process which
> executes a famd in the user context, then other processes with the same UID
> can connect to the same famd.
that's much more sensible.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-20 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 12:15 FAM uses seteuid and setegid Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-05-20 12:42 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-05-20 13:55 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-05-20 14:27 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-05-20 14:41 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-05-20 15:14 ` Russell Coker
2004-05-20 16:24 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-05-20 16:32 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-05-20 17:32 ` Russell Coker
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