Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752141AbXIRXpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:45:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbXIRXp3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:45:29 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55962 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbXIRXp2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:45:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:18:16 +0530 (IST) From: Satyam Sharma X-X-Sender: satyam@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in To: Kyle Moffett cc: Trond Myklebust , "J. Bruce Fields" , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: NFS4 authentification / fsuid In-Reply-To: <3BBEDBBC-FD71-4A6F-81B3-EC0978A37024@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <1188484155.6755.38.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1188484337.6755.41.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1188486240.6755.51.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20070830214431.GF10808@fieldses.org> <20070906150616.GA28565@fieldses.org> <0D66E86D-8D97-45D7-9C2A-7AB5F42845B5@mac.com> <1189121714.6672.38.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <5B1FC03A-6819-4C6C-91D3-F3022B798EF4@mac.com> <1189142049.6681.29.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <3BBEDBBC-FD71-4A6F-81B3-EC0978A37024@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 18 On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > So you can't draw any relationships between "Protect the end-user" with > "Protect the device FROM the end-user", the former can be done very reliably ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *attacker* > to whatever level of risk-reduction you need and the latter can't practically > be done at all. Well, you're the one who called solving the physical access problem "easy" here ... :-) - 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/