From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Virtual ssh users
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:28:15 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0509211225510.9471@ida.bway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432151F7.8020204@gmail.com>
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Paul Kölle wrote:
> It's pretty straightforward. libnss-mysql configuration file takes a SQL
> query for each get*() call, so there are no constraints for the db
> schema. Examples are in /usr/share/doc after installing the package.
> What I haven't figured out yet: Calls to NSS are made in the context of
> the user running e.g. "id", so if you use a socket connection to mysql
> you need to allow *every* user to read from the socket. I haven't
> investigated the implications in terms of security yet.
If you look at the MySQL privileges for the libnss-mysql user (as set in
/etc/libnss-mysql.cfg) you will see that only SELECT priv is granted for
that user. (Granted, that might be a problem too ;-)
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 4:53 [gentoo-server] Virtual ssh users Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-09 9:12 ` Paul Kölle
2005-09-21 16:28 ` A. Khattri [this message]
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2005-09-06 0:09 Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-06 0:15 ` Jeremy Brake
2005-09-06 0:26 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-06 6:08 ` ysharma
2005-09-06 16:41 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-08 14:43 ` A. Khattri
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