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Re: Design principles and ethics
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Marcus Brinkmann |
Subject: |
Re: Design principles and ethics |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:40:46 +0200 |
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At Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:03:41 +0200,
Pierre THIERRY <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Scribit Tom Bachmann dies 30/04/2006 hora 21:21:
> > > /sbin/passwd requires the authority to write the password database,
> > > which the user does not have.
> > Wrong. In my proposal she has the authority because there is no real
> > ``password database''. There is just a file (say ~/.passwd) that
> > contains the hash of the users password.
>
> So there is no /sbin/passwd, and it was not considered in the question,
> which about the program accessing a central password database (which I
> agree we should avoid if we can, but that is not the point).
A program that can access a central password database in write-mode is
_not_ confined. It can be run as a system service that is accessed
through a capability, just like any other system service, if desired.
Thanks,
Marcus
- Re: Design principles and ethics (was Re: Execute without read (was [...])), (continued)
- Re: Design principles and ethics (was Re: Execute without read (was [...])), Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Tom Bachmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Tom Bachmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Tom Bachmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Tom Bachmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics,
Marcus Brinkmann <=
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Bas Wijnen, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Tom Bachmann, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/04/30
- Re: Design principles and ethics, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/04/30