Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752248AbbLNPZS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:25:18 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:35945 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751455AbbLNPZR (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:25:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:25:08 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Jason Newton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is PROT_SOCK still relevant? Message-ID: <20151214152508.21394030@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 19 > So it's been quite some time since this topic was covered in any > capacity, and it's worth asking now: does it make sense to keep this > ancient security bit around? Does it make a modicum of improvement to Yes. > Is there disagreement on my views or points? Yes 8) You don't really want someone racing you to set up a fake ssh service on your system to steal all the passwords do you ? Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/