Re: [PATCH] KEYS: prevent creating a different user's keyrings

[David Howells]

Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix it by marking user and user session keyrings with a flag
> KEY_FLAG_UID_KEYRING.  Then, when searching for a user or user session
> keyring by name, skip all keyrings that don't have the flag set.

I wonder if it's better just to reject attempts to manually create/join
keyrings of such names.  PAM uses the implicit creation method of specifying
the 'macro' key IDs for these keyrings.

David