> There is a bug here, though, in that user-space check for > PRIV_SYS_DL_CONFIG in dlmgmtd's dlmgmt_handler() doesn't behave this > way.
Thanks! That's sounds like one of two bugs that causes "ifconfig" to core dump. I can start to work on the fix to address the problem. Tom, If I provide bfu archives, can you please help me to verify the fix works on your system? > One one hand, this should be fixed, but on the other, it points to > a greater problem in that there is no user-space infrastructure to > implement these kinds of privilege relationships in a central place. > Perhaps this points out that privilege checks are generally ill-suited > for user-space, and that we should be moving to using authorizations > instead. > I agree it sounds like a infrastructure flaw. Do we have a guideline about how it suppose to work? Thanks - Cathy > -Seb > > > _______________________________________________ > nwam-discuss mailing list > nwam-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/nwam-discuss
