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Re: [Patch]: Create Global Privilege


On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:07:22AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:45:57AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > At 03:32 PM 11/26/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >Imagine a sshd service is running on the system.  This service has the
> > >SE_CREATE_GLOBAL_NAME privilege and would create the global object on
> > >system startup (given the service is in automatic mode).  Other processes
> > >would then be able to access the global object, regardless if running in
> > >a terminal session or not.  This would keep the process list together,
> > >for instance.
> > [...]
> > The problem with the track you start on is that one can end up with a
> > split system, e.g. the cygwin share in global space and a tty in local
> > space, invisible to the rest of the system. I am unsure of what can
> > happen then. Also the user share could be either global or local, depending
> > if a user (or a seteuid process) is already running at the console/service
> > at the moment a session starts under Terminal Services. 
> > That leads to indeterminate behavior.
> 
> If we make sure that the first process started in a process hirarchy
> determines where the shared mem is, that shouldn't be a problem.  The
> decision should be made only once.
> 
> > >Also, shouldn't the prefix variable have a NO_COPY attribute?  If the
> > >process setuids and forks, the new process might have different privileges
> > >which might or might not result in the need to use a different object
> > >name space.
> > 
> > I think it's OK. forks don't call CreateProcessAsUser and memory_init happens
> > early. However I am not 100% sure of what might happen following a seteuid
> > (but it won't be worse than before the patch).
> 
> My above comment would support the NO_COPY, wouldn't it?

Gosh, no, it doesn't.  I shouldn't try to think when it's that late.

Corinna

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