On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:11:42AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > Didnt I show a "bleeding edge" patch some April 1st or so?
>
> It's a bad day for presenting a useful patch.
Hardly useful. Somewhat funny. I just looked - it was April 1st, 2002.
> > Let me repeat what I said and you snipped:
> > If there is a security problem, then it should be solved in user space.
>
> By killing and disabeling all remote logins when root logs in or by
> ptracing each user program during root sessions? You'd have to do this
> until we find somebody to do the correct fix in the kernel.
Please describe the perceived security problem.
I see words, but no problem.
You log in remotely to my machine. Want to do something evil.
What precisely do you do?
2.0.34% loadkeys -d
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
How do you propose this remotely logged-in non-root gets access to
a console file descriptor?
Andries
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