From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:54:52 -0600 Message-ID: <422965CC.7060709@us.ibm.com> References: <1109962904.2746.12.camel@localhost> <4228B4D3.8020909@xensource.com> <1109965655.3355.8.camel@localhost> <42292428.6040307@blueyonder.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42292428.6040307@blueyonder.co.uk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org David Hopwood wrote: > There are several techniques you could be referring to: > > > > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click