On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 15:50 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 11/13/2013 03:47 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > On 11/13/2013 03:34 PM, Simo wrote:
> >>
> >> Uhm doesn't this code store the user password in the clear in a key that
> >> is explicitly made readable to any process of the user in the same
> >> session ?
> >>
> >> Simo.
> >>
> >
> > I tried to mimic exactly what the cifscreds program does, but I may have 
> > made
> > a mistake.  Or perhaps cifscreds is also doing a bad thing.  The key
> > permissions are set to:
> >
> > #define CIFS_KEY_PERMS (KEY_POS_VIEW|KEY_POS_WRITE|KEY_POS_SEARCH| \
> >                          KEY_USR_VIEW|KEY_USR_WRITE|KEY_USR_SEARCH)
> >
> >
> 
> We're not setting KEY_*_READ, so one cannot read the contents of the key, 
> IIUIC.

My bad, my eyes saw VIEW but read READ.

Simo.

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