From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, sbaugh@catern.com
Subject: Re: Providing an alternative to setuid in GuixSD
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:52:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zilr6lr4.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ttbti19.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> SSH is a complex protocol and its implementations are complex too. I
> would find it unreasonable to replace ‘su’ and ‘sudo’ with something
> this complex, that goes through the TCP/IP stack, etc.
I agree. We could maybe have a pseudo-sudo service that is built just
for this purpose though... let's call it "psudo". ;) Thinking out loud:
So, you're running psudo, and this thing maybe accepts connections over
something more secure, *maybe* unix domain sockets... so restrict group
access to the socket to users in the "psudo" group.
From there, maybe it could require PAM authentication while entering the
root password, or something.
It feels hard to know how psudo could "know" what user is accessing the
socket... I don't think that information is made available, right?
Maybe I'm wrong! I guess postgres and etc do similar things?
Fun idea to think about anyway :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-26 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-23 15:17 Providing an alternative to setuid in GuixSD sbaugh
2016-10-24 0:09 ` Chris Marusich
2016-10-24 22:01 ` sbaugh
2016-10-26 12:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-26 14:40 ` sbaugh
2016-10-28 13:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-29 21:41 ` sbaugh
2016-10-26 17:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-10-26 18:34 ` sbaugh
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