denied avcs for kde again :(

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Feb 17 07:45:34 UTC 2009


Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> I have also seen similar with it trying to create the directory in
> /root.  Which is also somewhat bad.  I do not want to give login
> programs the ability to write to these directories, because attackers
> without passwords can get the login programs to execute large amounts of
> codes without ever identifying themselves.  gdm is setup with a homedir
> of /var/lib/gdm, which allows us to confine the gdm login program.
> 
> Kde login needs something similar,  I believe there is a bug on this,
> but it would not hurt to open another.

KDM runs as root, so of course its homedir is /root. KDM does not support
running as anything other than root (just like XDM and pretty much any
display manager other than the latest GDM).

        Kevin Kofler




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