From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate from a setuid-root binary
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:19:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181119131940.GA13390@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a7f4f1fc1a54fd6eca7d7bc9a6249ae@cs.uni-dortmund.de>
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:43:10PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> The beginning is that I want to create a user-specific logical volume when a
> user logs in to a service that authenticates its users through pam and that
> does not run as root.
Couldn't you use a pam_scripts ses_open/ses_close hook to do this?
That way you can get rid of any suid binary and rely on the well
tested PAM stack to carry out the set up (and optionally clean up)
for the users at login/out time.
Regards,
Bryn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-19 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 16:39 [linux-lvm] lvcreate from a setuid-root binary Christoph Pleger
2018-11-15 17:57 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2018-11-16 13:43 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-16 15:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-11-16 16:12 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-16 17:21 ` Roger Heflin
2018-11-16 15:41 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2018-11-21 9:56 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-21 9:58 ` Vladislav Bogdanov
2018-11-21 10:23 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-17 0:24 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2018-11-19 8:55 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-19 13:01 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2018-11-19 13:19 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2018-11-19 15:17 ` Christoph Pleger
2018-11-19 15:35 ` Christoph Pleger
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2018-11-19 14:04 ` matthew patton
2018-11-19 15:03 ` Christoph Pleger
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2018-11-19 16:05 ` matthew patton
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2018-11-22 16:41 ` matthew patton
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