Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS4 authentification / fsuid | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:32:17 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:29 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > We've got people working on fixing this problem using David Howells' > keyrings, but it will probably be a while until we've solved all the > upcall issues, and it will probably take even longer to push the > kerberos changes back to the official MIT etc distros.
BTW: even when this task is done, a creative root can still find ways to subvert the security (he can read /dev/mem, replace the kernel with a compromised one, ....). The bottom line is that if you can't trust root, don't even log in.
Trond
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