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

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users
From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:21:17 +0200
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Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> Kurt Garloff wrote:
>> I don't see a big difference in neither flexibility nor security.
>
> So you really _want_ to add yet another unnecessary setuid app,
> where one really is not needed?

Tommi has said everything already, and I concur - please consider
using an UNIX-domain socket. Even more reasons for preferring it over
a TCP-connection can be listed, but hopefully they are not needed.

-- Naked




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