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Re: [Xen-devel] severe security issue on dom0/xend/xm/non-root users

Rumor has it that on Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:51:22PM +0100 Kurt Garloff said:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:39:01PM +0000, David Hopwood wrote:
> > Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > >Why not just require the other end of the socket to be below 1024?
> > 
> > Please don't. The permission should be something that can be specifically
> > granted to a user or group id, not that requires root. Requiring root
> > tends to cause as many security problems as it solves.
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> Normally, you'd expect that only the sysadmin is able to control
> virtual machines. This would be the result of this simple tweak.
> 

Which sysadmin?  Dom0 sysadmin may not be the same as a vm's sysadmin.
You would not want a VM sysadmin to be able to manage someone else's VM,
but he may want control over his own. 


Cheers,

Phil


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