[Xen-users] Re: XCP: Insecure Distro ?

[A Cold Penguin <verycoldpenguin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Sorry I wasn't completely clear.
>The reason why the use of /etc/passwd vs /etc/shadow is
>non-consequential is that XCP is a single user machine where all
>access is via UID 0.
>As such UNIX file permissions are effectively useless. For all intents
>and purposes 700 = 777 if you are always root and everything is owned
>by root yes?
....
>Does this further clarify why changing to /etc/shadow would be of no
>consequence?
 

No, if anything, it makes even less sense. If all the daemons are running as root, then the excuse that was put forward, that using shadow would stop the necessary daemons from being able to perform their synchronisation properly, is moot.
In the situation I am talking about here, root is often not used as a super-user. Although it would be understood that in the requirement of XCP this might be bypassed, the easy-access by keeping the password in a world-readable file would not be acceptable.

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