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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFS4 authentification / fsuid
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:32:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188484337.6755.41.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188484155.6755.38.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:29 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> We've got people working on fixing this problem using David Howells'
> keyrings, but it will probably be a while until we've solved all the
> upcall issues, and it will probably take even longer to push the
> kerberos changes back to the official MIT etc distros.

BTW: even when this task is done, a creative root can still find ways to
subvert the security (he can read /dev/mem, replace the kernel with a
compromised one, ....). The bottom line is that if you can't trust root,
don't even log in.

Trond


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-30 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 14:12 Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-30 14:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-30 14:32   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2007-08-30 14:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-30 15:04       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-30 21:44         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-06  8:14           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-06  8:29             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-06 15:11               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-06 23:21                 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-06 23:32                   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-07 15:34                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-18 23:27                       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-18 23:12                 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-06 15:06             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-06 23:30               ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-06 23:35                 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-07  0:56                   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-07  5:14                     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-07  5:47                       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-07  6:37                         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-18 23:48                         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-18 23:44                     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-19  5:16                       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-19 12:16                         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-19 13:49                           ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-19 14:12                             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-19 15:01                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-20  7:03                                 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-19 16:38                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-20  7:15                           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-30 15:12       ` J. Bruce Fields

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