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Hello Simon,
I know that there are discussions in the Unix or POSIX community about retiring root and go to something with finer granularity as in the SELinux approach. In this vein, one idea I have been thinking about is for InitSecurityContext and AcceptSecurityContext calls ;reject these ;requests if the process is running with root's uuid.
Regards, Vasili
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:54:30 +0200
From: Simon Josefsson < jas extundo.com">
jasextundo.com>
Subject: Re: security hole in GSS when running as root?
To: "Galchin Vasili" < vigalchingmail.com">vigalchingmail.com>
Cc: help-gssgnu.org">
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"Galchin Vasili" < vigalchingmail.com">
vigalchingmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>;
> ; If some GSS security mecahisms store information, like e.g.
> credentials, in files, running as root a process can read these files and
> then masquerade as others.
Right. ; The Unix design has been to give "root" the ability to do
anything on a system, including reading user's private credentials.
There are few technical options that solve this completely, as far as
I'm aware.
Do you consider this an important problem? If you have suggestions on
solving it, I'd be happy to discuss them.
/Simon
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