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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] user none: cwfs vs hjfs
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:08:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F292E8D-F13E-4366-B83C-3AD984AFA4AB@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B43B2685-E607-4AE2-A24B-4EBCFA522E43@stanleylieber.com>

On January 21, 2021 6:00:33 PM EST, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>On January 21, 2021 5:51:02 PM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>why do you think running every service as none is a recommended practice?
>>
>>On 1/21/21, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>>> On January 21, 2021 5:01:06 PM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>otoh not fixing hjfs may break security assumptions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> yes. i think we should fix hjfs. a lot of stuff relies on user none doing
>>> what it does in cwfs. the most import thing is that all file systems behave
>>> the same way.
>>>
>>> that said, relegating user none to world readable files while simultaneously
>>> running basically every service as none makes isolating services, and more
>>> blatantly keeping local users out of service files, difficult if not
>>> impossible.
>>>
>>> i think they got lazy with user none. we need some finer grade control over
>>> user capabilities.
>>>
>>> sl
>>>
>>
>
>upas for one hardcodes switching to user none even if you don't run it as user none.
>
>sl
>

right now, running as user none is the only way to mask proc and other # file system data.

it's the default user for the listener, hiro.

sl

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-21 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-19 20:16 Stanley Lieber
2021-01-19 20:36 ` hiro
2021-01-19 20:51 ` Silas McCroskey
2021-01-19 20:57   ` Silas McCroskey
2021-01-19 21:35     ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-19 21:54       ` hiro
2021-01-19 21:58         ` Anthony Martin
2021-01-21 16:22           ` ori
2021-01-21 17:05             ` sirjofri
2021-01-21 17:36               ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-21 22:01                 ` hiro
2021-01-21 22:15                   ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-21 22:51                     ` hiro
2021-01-21 22:55                       ` hiro
2021-01-21 23:26                         ` Silas McCroskey
2021-01-21 23:55                           ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-22  0:13                             ` Silas McCroskey
2021-01-23 15:08                               ` cinap_lenrek
2021-01-22  0:24                             ` ori
2021-01-22  0:53                               ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-22  9:53                                 ` hiro
2021-01-22  0:10                           ` Anthony Martin
2021-01-21 23:44                         ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-22  0:00                           ` Silas McCroskey
2021-01-22  9:14                           ` hiro
2021-01-22 14:51                             ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-22 15:01                               ` hiro
2021-01-22 15:39                                 ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-22  9:41                           ` hiro
2021-01-21 23:00                       ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-21 23:08                         ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2021-01-19 23:04         ` Silas McCroskey
2021-01-20  1:12           ` hiro
2021-01-20  1:50             ` Stanley Lieber
2021-01-19 21:07   ` Stanley Lieber

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