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Date:      Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:38:47 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libopie Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200108051438.f75EcmZ04259@grimreaper.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <20010805023456.A36079@nagual.pp.ru> ; from "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>  "Sun, 05 Aug 2001 02:34:56 %2B0400."
References:  <20010805023456.A36079@nagual.pp.ru> 

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> > That is a bug that needs to be fixed in its own right.
> 
> It is not a bug, it is official way OPIE detects that connection is
> secure. That is, via environment variable :-(

But environment variables are spoofable and therefore insecure. It may be
the way that OPIE does it, but it is an insecure algorithm and it needs 
to be fixed.

(I have a partial fix that does ttys(5) secure detection).

> Do you know secure ways to detect running on X console? Or running under
> SSH connection?

X is pretty much by definition insecure, but there are ways of securing
xterms. I am looking at how to detect this. I'm not sure how to detect
SSH, but I'll listen to suggestions.

M
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Mark Murray
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