Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:22:25 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Subject: Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support Message-ID: <CAJOYFBCDLnndbSsb3EjtTSa6dRT-EuV5YyezaPnTF6vCDW0Czw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120605213101.GA13339@stack.nl> References: <4FCC126C.1020600@shatow.net> <20120605213101.GA13339@stack.nl>
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2012/6/5 Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>: > To avoid this, the utmpx APIs could communicate with a privileged daemon > if the files are not readable. The daemon can check the identity of the > caller via getpeereid(3). +1. I would really like to have something like this. Another advantage of this approach would be that it's a lot easier to change the file format then. There's only one application that interacts with these files. -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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