xiaoxiang781216 commented on PR #8924: URL: https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/8924#issuecomment-1490583121
@patacongo we want to implement I_SUID/I_SGID feature for binfs and romfs. Why we need these features? Because the traditional security model like your description: > It would help to understand exactly what you are trying to accomplish to forcing some UID defined in a configuration. > > NuttX supports standard /etc/passwd and /etc/group files for assigning UIDs and GIDs to users. These are currently only used in NSH logins and do not for set UID and GID, but they should! See configuration sim:nsh, boards/sim/sim/sim/include/nsh_romfsimg.h, and boards/sim/sim/sim/src/etc. > > The behavior that I would expect is that the UID and GID defaut to zero (root) but are set at login to the values in /etc. Tasks run (in memory or in the file system) would (usually) take the UID and GID of the parent. But could be changed with ST_NOSUID logic or setuid() and setgid(). isn't suitable for personal device(e.g. PC, phone and PAD). The old model assume that software is perfect, and the device is shared by many people, the security mode trusts the installed software but untrust the end user. So, it's good approach to assign each login user a different id and do the security check in various syscall. But for personal device, the user owns the device physically, it's make no sense to check the user activity, but program downloaded from internet which may contain malicious code need be monitored instead. Here is how Android use uid/gid to protect the user from maliciour program: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5708906/what-is-uid-on-android Basically, Android assign program with the different uid/gid and monitor the program activity in many places. I_SUID/I_SGID is the most portable and simplest way to achieve this goal. @cederom Yes, we want to do the similar thing on NuttX like Android on Linux in the POSIX compliant way. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@nuttx.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
