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| author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-10-01 09:54:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-10-01 12:06:28 +0000 |
| commit | 8234b8bb76c3ec98466435ab0c84301ae9788ca0 (patch) | |
| tree | 41bf8a607086b2bad7a6cb17217e2d15de312803 | |
| parent | af774d3bb0d728f2f37c418b8c3e215f1d4d860f (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-8234b8bb76c3ec98466435ab0c84301ae9788ca0.tar.gz | |
Virtual users will probably be used for read-write IMAP/JMAP support. The potential for various kernel/hardware bugs and attacks also needs to be highlighted.
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/lei-security.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lei-security.pod b/Documentation/lei-security.pod index 02305b90..8cbd8993 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei-security.pod +++ b/Documentation/lei-security.pod @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ permissions support. It does not use POSIX ACLs, extended attributes, nor any other security-related functions which require non-standard Perl modules. +There is preliminary support for "virtual users", but it is +incomplete and undocumented. + =head1 INTERNAL FILES lei runs with a umask of 077 to prevent other users on the @@ -93,7 +96,7 @@ lei uses L<git-credential(1)> to prompt users for IMAP and NNTP usernames and passwords. These passwords are not encrypted in memory and get transferred across processes via anonymous UNIX sockets and pipes. They may be exposed via syscall tracing -tools (e.g. L<strace(1)>). +tools (e.g. L<strace(1)>), kernel and hardware bugs/attacks. While credentials are not written to the filesystem by default, it is possible for them to end up on disk if processes are |