On 16.12. 15:44, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
On 2015-12-16 06:21:01, Ilkka Virta wrote:
Right, you are right of course. I do think it's critical to keep that
file from being readable from random apps. The format *is* also a little
brittle so it seems important to have standardized access as well...
Maybe having a system similar to shadow passwords would be necessary
here: there could be a secret file that can only be read by root (or
with the right caps) and would need a special tool (oath.passwd?) to
reset.
Well being root-only and having some sort of a helper app is already
needed. (Though the helper might well be the admins text editor.
As for brittleness, it shares the same thing with all other text files:
they kind of have to be rewritten completely every time (can't just
replace a single line). Unless you meant some other brittleness? Of
course there's locking, per-user files would make that a bit simpler.
This was the per-user shadow file thingy I was thinking of:
http://www.openwall.com/tcb/ (see the slides)
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