Re: [PATCH 2/3] Security: Implement disablenetwork semantics. (v4)

[Michael Stone]

Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> Michael Stone wrote:
> > Examples of software that I want to be able to gain privileges normally include:
> >
> >    rainbow, which requires privilege in order to add new accounts to the system
> >    and in order to call setuid() but which does not require networking
> >    privileges.
>
> If the system is not using local files (i.e. /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow),
> the process who wants to add new accounts to the system might need network
> access (e.g. to LDAP server), doesn't it?

General purpose account manipulation tools might need network access but
rainbow handles all its account manipulations via state stored in
/var/spool/rainbow/2. This state is made available to the rest of the system
via libnss_rainbow.

Michael
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