On 04/11/2017 08:39 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 03/28/2017 04:17 PM, Alan Ott wrote:
>> Per-user allowed_auths are stored in the persistence file, but there's
>> no way to change them from their defaults, which is 0 (no allowed auths)
>> for users which are not in lan.conf (ie: for users which are added using
>> the IPMI interface). Ignoring user allowed_auths when they are 0 will
>> cause ipmi_sim to use the per-privilege allowed_auths for the user's
>> privilege level instead.
>
> Well, this was pretty hard.  I'm not sure where the per-user 
> allowed_auths came
> from, I don't see any evidence that there is anything like that in the 
> spec.  The
> only thing that it says is that the auth in the Get Session Challenge 
> and Activate
> Session commands must match, but there's no real way to do that because
> the point of this is to avoid DOS attacks, and so you can't really 
> save info for
> the other command.
>
> So my proposal would be to just delete the per-user allowed_auths. 
> Does that
> make sense?

Makes perfect sense to me. Thanks!

Alan.


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