Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.2

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Darren,

On Mar 12 11:31, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:47:10AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> > > > I don't mind, but are these really the only uid==0 checks that matter?
> > > 
> > > for AuthorizedKeysCommand, yes.  There's probably other places where
> > > it would also be useful (StrictModes checks come to mind) but those
> > > are not new and I'd rather review those on a case by case basis.
> > 
> > ok for release so long as we use it pervasively afterwards
> 
> thanks, committed with a slightly more descriptive function name and
> comment.

Along the same lines, will a yet-to-be-designed patch have a chance in
future, which replaces all tests for uid == 0 with a platform-dependent
function testing the uid for being any administrative user?

We discussed this a couple of times in the past and I even provided a
patch ages ago, but this never came to fruition.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat