From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Luca Barbieri <luca.barbieri@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Upstream first policy
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:55:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100309015518.GS30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff13bc9a1003081751s535fbf71l9d261b303587b23a@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:51:55AM +0100, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> >> 4. It doesn't matter at all if anyone reads a file that happens to be
> >> at /etc/shadow while not containing shadow passwords (with the same
> >> path, but different content)
> >
> > What the hell are you smoking?
>
> I mean, what is interesting for security of reading is the fact that
> the file contains shadow passwords (and thus is labeled as "secret" or
> with a specific label), not that it is at /etc/shadow.
<sarcasm>
Yeah, especially when it's read by sshd. Who cares, indeed? So it's got
a passwordless root, that's even better, right? Nobody will see your
real root password that way...
</sarcasm>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-07 21:23 Upstream first policy James Morris
2010-03-07 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-07 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-08 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-08 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 18:45 ` Al Viro
2010-03-08 18:53 ` Al Viro
2010-03-08 18:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-08 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-09 0:48 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-03-08 21:20 ` Chris Adams
2010-03-08 19:18 ` Al Viro
2010-03-09 1:18 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-09 1:25 ` Al Viro
2010-03-09 1:51 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-09 1:55 ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-03-09 2:09 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-08 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-08 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 19:27 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-08 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-09 7:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-09 8:46 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-09 14:58 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-08 23:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 23:18 ` Eric Paris
2010-03-09 15:16 ` Florian Mickler
2010-03-09 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-11 3:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 22:12 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-08 23:12 ` Eric Paris
2010-03-08 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 23:18 ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-08 23:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-08 23:51 ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-09 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-09 3:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2010-03-09 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-09 13:09 ` Samir Bellabes
2010-03-09 0:15 ` Al Viro
2010-03-09 0:48 ` Al Viro
2010-03-09 1:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-09 2:05 ` Al Viro
2010-03-09 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-23 13:59 ` Pavel Machek
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2010-03-08 19:40 ` James Kosin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-04 18:39 [git pull] drm request 3 Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 18:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2010-03-04 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 19:25 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-04 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-04 22:06 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-05 0:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 0:28 ` Ben Skeggs
2010-03-05 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-05 1:19 ` Upstream first policy Kyle McMartin
2010-03-05 1:28 ` Linus Torvalds
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