On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 11:48:59AM -0500, J. S. Connell wrote: > On 18 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > I heared on Solaris you have a daemon, which takes username/password > > and tells you if the combination is OK. > > rpc.pwdauthd. Nice idea, but Linux doesn't have (as far as I am aware) any > kind of a credentials mechanism so you know you're talking to a _real_ > rpc.pwdauthd and not some fake daemon some s|<r1pt kiddie is running. (I'm > vague on the exact mechanism involved, but I seem to recall reading about > it on either BUGTRAQ or linux-kernel recently.) >
Can you explain what the problem with a auth daemon is? If there was a daemon listening on a system port then why couldn't local processes be sure that it is the real thing (since its the same machine anyway - if a skript kiddie can fake the daemon running on a system port then he has root anyway)? What am I missing? Thanks, Chris -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The box said "Windows 95, NT or better" .. so I installed Debian Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5
