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

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Wed Jan 31 16:58:40 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 23:39 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Cool. Go for it, thanks!

     David




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