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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix xconsole.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:31:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217103132.65061c05@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1wsdz892h.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org>

> The console messages may only be redirected once, and root may perform
> that initial redirection.  So I don't see why it is a security issue.

I see nothing after your change that stops random users redirecting the
console providing they are "first". Random users should not be able to
hijack the system console stream.

The ancient behaviour is an icky hack for xconsole in a world where
security didn't use to matter.

Alan

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17  9:06 Eric W. Biederman
2008-12-17 10:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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