Re: unix_chkpwd

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

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James Morris wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Russell Coker wrote:
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>>We can do one of three things:
>>1)  dontaudit system_chkpwd_t inetd_t:fd use;
>>2)  Change sshd to use fcntl() before doing any PAM stuff.
>>3)  Put code in pam_unix.so to close all file handles after the fork().
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>>Which do you think is best?  2 seems most correct to me, but may be most 
>>difficult to get accepted upstream.
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>Yes, 2 seems correct to me as well, what objections would they have 
>upstream?
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>- James
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I still think the safest thing is to manual close all sockets, since 
this prevents the case where someone has opened a socket accidently 
since you don't know where pam is going to be used.  The time it takes 
to run 0-max open file descriptors is tiny.

Dan

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