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Quote: setuid API for temporary and permanent privileges; works for OpenSSH; does not handle group privileges

topics > all references > references c-d > QuoteRef: chenH8_2002 , p. 18



Topic:
security by access rights
Topic:
authentication

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We propose a new [uid-setting] API … [that] contains the three functions: @ drop_priv_temp(new_uid) … @ drop_priv_perm(new_uid) … @ restore_priv … [p. 19] To evaluate the high-level API, we replaced … uid-setting system calls in eight tasks. … We are able to implement all these tasks … group privileges.   Google-1   Google-2

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