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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-changelog] Set the permissions correctly on the XML-RPC UDP	socket, so that non-root users
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:49:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442D4F9F.5070004@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060331154826.GA31093@leeni.uk.xensource.com>

Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:36:45AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
>> Did you see this failure after changing the socket location to 
>> /var/run/xend/xml-rpc.sock?  The only way the permissions of 
>> /var/run/xend-xmlrpc.sock should be non-root is if /var/run has non root 
>> permissions.  Was that the case?
>>     
>
> We were seeing the failure intermittently, even when the socket was in
> /var/run.
>   

Interesting, that's really good to know for the future.

Thanks,

Anthony Liguori

> According to unix(7), on Linux, "sockets honour the permissions of the
> directory they are in", so it seems to me to be safest to have our own
> dedicated directory, so that we can guarantee the permissions on that are
> correct.
>
> Ewan.
>   

      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-31 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2006-03-31 14:36 ` [Xen-changelog] Set the permissions correctly on the XML-RPC UDP socket, so that non-root users Anthony Liguori
2006-03-31 15:48   ` Ewan Mellor
2006-03-31 15:49     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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