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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:05:03 +0100 (MEZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, terry@lambert.org, sprice@hiwaay.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for an idea
Message-ID:  <199611271305.AA071569903@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <329B547F.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 26, 96 12:35:11 pm

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E-mail message from Julian Elischer contained:
> Bill Paul wrote:
> > 
> > 
> If YOU ( the server) are root....
> 
> make a file owned by them mode 400
> require them to open it and send you the file descriptor via AF_UNIX
> 
> check it matches..
> if it does, then
> 1/ the are themselves
> or
> 2/ they are root (game over)

Or
	3) they made a hard link, opened that, and sent you the 
	   file descriptor.

	   The only protection agains that is a partition writable only
	   by root where these files are to live--almost as bad as 
	   procfs.

/Marino



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