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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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