Re: Upstream first policy

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:51:55AM +0100, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> >> 4. It doesn't matter at all if anyone reads a file that happens to be
> >> at /etc/shadow while not containing shadow passwords (with the same
> >> path, but different content)
> >
> > What the hell are you smoking?
> 
> I mean, what is interesting for security of reading is the fact that
> the file contains shadow passwords (and thus is labeled as "secret" or
> with a specific label), not that it is at /etc/shadow.

<sarcasm>
Yeah, especially when it's read by sshd.  Who cares, indeed?  So it's got
a passwordless root, that's even better, right?  Nobody will see your
real root password that way...
</sarcasm>
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