Re: [Xen-devel] severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Hopwood wrote:

> There are several techniques you could be referring to:
>
> <http://www.whitefang.com/sup/secure-faq.html#LOCAL4>
> <http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/sockets.html> 
>
> but they all sound to me like complicated and nonportable hacks. Which 
> one
> did you mean?
SCM_CREDENTIALS on Linux, SCM_CREDS on some versions of BSD, SO_PEERNAME 
on some other Unices.
They all do just about the same thing.  Just have to choose the right 
mechanism at compile time.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori



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