Renewable ticket ?

Austin Gonyou austin at coremetrics.com
Wed May 8 12:13:32 EDT 2002


If you were to use POSIX ACLs though, and then SUID the xlock binary,
would that help at all?

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 10:47, eichin-krb at thok.org wrote:
> >     I agree with you, I would like to see some xlock that renews
> kerberos
> > tickets also.
> 
> I've yet to see a good design for this that isn't either vulnerable to
> the zanarotti attack, or needs xlock to be setuid root.  I have seen
> implementations that combined both flaws :-)
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