--- nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ 114078 ] Permission Denied on LEAF Oxygen > From: nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:48:54 -0800 > > Support Request #114078, was updated on 2001-Feb-12 > 08:48 > You can respond by visiting: > http://sourceforge.net/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=114078&group_id=2405 > > Category: None > Status: Open > Priority: 5 > Summary: Permission Denied on LEAF Oxygen > > By: dave_faught > Date: 2001-Feb-12 08:48 > > Message: > Logged In: NO > Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows > NT; > CNETHomeBuild051099) > > I am attempting to use PCMCIA-CS on the LEAF Oxygen > distribution. This distribution mounts /tmp with > the > "nodev" attribute and thereby causes an "open_sock > (socket x) failed, Permission Denied" message when > cardmgr tries to open a socket. > > The lead developer for Oxygen claims that this is a > security issue when Oxygen is used as a firewall and > > asked why these dynamic device files can't be > created > in /dev. I think that this would be a simple change > > in cardmgr.c, but there are a couple of > alternatives. > > Currently, there is one place in cardmgr.c that > calls > tmpnam(). This function gets the directory from the > > #define for P_tmpdir in stdio.h. This could be > overridden locally for this program, I suppose. > > Another alternative would be to replace the tmpnam() > > call with a tempnam() call, which allows the > directory > to be specified. This function also includes a > search > order for the directory, which I'm not sure is a > good > idea security-wise. > > At this point, I'm kind of an interested third party > > in this, and I'm not sure what I might do to resolve > > this. I believe that the issue should really be > resolved between you and the lead developer for > Oxygen, who can be reached through > leaf.sourceforge.net. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can respond by visiting: > http://sourceforge.net/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=114078&group_id=2405 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-hardware mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-hardware
