[PATCH][1/2] hal-luks-setup-linux: fix/cleanup password handling

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Jan 31 14:39:24 PST 2007


On Wednesday 31 January 2007 23:31, David Zeuthen wrote:
[...]
> Looks good to me; I was paranoid about the following
>
>  #!/bin/sh
>  read foo
>  echo $foo
>
> and the caller passing in e.g.
>
>  `echo owned | passwd --stdin root`
>
> but it seems this attack is not really possible yes? I couldn't
> reproduce it anyway so if you agree go ahead and commit it please.
> Thanks.

This change was reviewed/discussed by/with the SUSE security team, therefore I 
would say there is no way to do something like that. ;-)

Danny


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