Re: Needed: suid library calls [or pkey's?]

2000-05-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:01 PM -0700 5/25/00, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: It was called program keys, or 'pkey's. When a program was running, there was this pkey attribute (in addition to uid and gid). The pkey was a 16-character value (if I remember right). Each

Re: Needed: suid library calls [or pkey's?]

2000-05-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
On May 24/2000, Nick Sayer scared people when he wrote: What we _really_ need is some mechanism to recognize the difference between a user program and a system library, with an eye towards granting privileges to trusted libraries without letting those privileges leak past the library in question.

Re: Needed: suid library calls [or pkey's?]

2000-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: It was called program keys, or 'pkey's. When a program was running, there was this pkey attribute (in addition to uid and gid). The pkey was a 16-character value (if I remember right). Each executable had a pkey associated with it, and that