On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Casey Schaufler <ca...@schaufler-ca.com> wrote: > On 7/10/2015 9:26 AM, David Herrmann wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Casey Schaufler <ca...@schaufler-ca.com> >> wrote: >> [...] >>> There are so many ways uids are being (miss/ab)used >>> on Linux systems these days that the idea of trusting a bus just >>> because its non-root uid is listed in a table somewhere (or worse, >>> coded in an API) is asking for exploits. >> Please elaborate on these possible exploits. I'd also like to hear, >> whether the same applies to the already used '/run/user/<uid>/bus', >> which follows nearly the same model. > > Sorry, I'm not the exploit generator guy. If I where, I would > point out that the application expecting the uid to identify > a person is going to behave incorrectly on the system that uses > the uid to identify an application. I never said that I liked > /run/user/<uid>/bus. Come to think of it, I never said I like > dbus, either.
What did you mean by uids are being abused or misused? -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
