Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:17:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SS_PRIV, SIOCSIFADDR and rshd Message-ID: <199602080147.MAA13788@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9602071544.AA19509@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Feb 7, 96 10:44:17 am
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Garrett A. Wollman stands accused of saying: > > > Anyone in a position to comment on this? I can't see anything obvious that > > resets SS_PRIV (or any of the socket state attributes) on either exec or > > set*id... > > Not a problem for the case of rshd. Our rshd always uses pipes to > talk to the inferior process. > > It's worth thinking about; I'll cons up a new setsockopt today to fix > the problem in the general case (at least for inetd). Hmm. There's no user struct visible at that level, so I guess it's not likely to be easy to check for uid == 0. > -GAWollman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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