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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p/linux factotum port
Date: Tue,  6 May 2008 13:18:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210105133.25663.1072.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b5cd7e4dca4da4f8d2dd082d97b7adf@coraid.com>

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:55 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > is anyone already working on an factotum port to p9p or native Linux ?
> >
> > I've just wrote a patch to Linux kernel which allows changing
> > another process' privileges (uid, etc). The /dev/caphash and
> > /dev/capuse devices (IMHO) can be simulated from userspace.
> >
>
> factotum has been running for years on linux, though it doesn't
> bother interacting with the kernel or pam.

Any particular (security?) reason for not having a PAM-aware factotum
or is it just lack of interest?

Thanks,
Roman.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06 19:49 Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-06 19:55 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-06 20:18   ` Roman Shaposhnik [this message]
2008-05-06 20:19     ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-06 21:01       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-05-06 19:56 ` Brian L. Stuart
2008-05-06 19:56 ` a
2008-05-06 20:22   ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-06 21:25     ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-06 21:42     ` Ashwin Ganti
2008-05-07 15:33       ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-06 20:01 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-06 20:03 ` ron minnich

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