RE: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

["Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

> > Sorry, do you accept the fact that MiNT allows creation of multiuser
> > setups? What your limit enabled in mint.cnf helps, when the someone else
> > than root himself, connects to the machine and starts your two processes
> > which lock the usage of the F_OS_SPECIAL, before the root sitting at the
> > console has started the AES?
> > 
> > Can you guarantee that this won't happen?
> > 
> Ofcourse not. But I can guarantee that this is a lot safer than not having
> any checks at all. Especially since F_OS_SPECIAL can't be removed for a long
> time yet.

For now the only change is that the F_OS_SPECIAL will be strictly root
only.
 
> You could also write a tiny program that occupies all F_OS_SPECIAL
> privileges, and then kill this immediately before you start the AES.
> Ofcourse, anyone could then just crash the AES and then exploit
> F_OS_SPECIAL, but then *you* could use a daemon that constantly monitors the
> status of the AES and immediately spawns your little F_OS_SPECIAL-hogging
> program if it crash etc...

Sorry, too complex.

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
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