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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:54:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422965CC.7060709@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42292428.6040307@blueyonder.co.uk>

David Hopwood wrote:

> There are several techniques you could be referring to:
>
> <http://www.whitefang.com/sup/secure-faq.html#LOCAL4>
> <http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/sockets.html> 
>
>
> but they all sound to me like complicated and nonportable hacks. Which 
> one
> did you mean?

SCM_CREDENTIALS on Linux, SCM_CREDS on some versions of BSD, SO_PEERNAME 
on some other Unices.

They all do just about the same thing.  Just have to choose the right 
mechanism at compile time.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori



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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-05  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04 17:23 severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users Adam Heath
2005-03-04 19:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-03-04 19:19   ` Rich Persaud
2005-03-04 19:47     ` Anthony Liguori
2005-03-04 19:39       ` Adam Heath
2005-03-04 19:56       ` Bastian Blank
2005-03-05 21:53         ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-05 22:28           ` Bastian Blank
2005-03-06 15:14           ` Tommi Virtanen
2005-03-06 21:14             ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-13 14:55               ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-13 16:00                 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-13 17:09                   ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-13 21:39                 ` David Hopwood
2005-03-13 21:51                   ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-14 14:58                     ` Philip R Auld
2005-03-14 15:16                       ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-14 15:54                         ` Philip R Auld
2005-03-14 16:13                           ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-14 16:44                             ` Anthony Liguori
2005-03-17  6:46                             ` Tommi Virtanen
2005-03-17 15:02                               ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-18  9:19                                 ` Tommi Virtanen
2005-03-18  9:31                                   ` Kurt Garloff
2005-03-18 11:59                                     ` Tommi Virtanen
2005-03-19 11:21                                       ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2005-03-19  2:33                                   ` David Hopwood
2005-03-19  6:29                                     ` Anthony Liguori
2005-03-05  3:14       ` David Hopwood
2005-03-05  7:54         ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2005-03-04 19:35   ` Adam Heath
2005-03-04 19:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2005-03-04 19:47       ` Rich Persaud
2005-03-04 23:19       ` Nicholas Lee
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-13 17:17 Ian Pratt

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