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From: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
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Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#354: Things you should know about X
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Hi Stefan,

On  So 08 Dez 2013 21:10:57 CET, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Am 08.12.2013 21:05, schrieb Nable 80:
>> One should notice that without root ( who would give root access to
>> generic employee? except (possibly) on his workstation) you still
>> cannot access other users' cookies (except cases when one have too
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> wide permissions or known vulnerabilitites with privelege escalation),
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> so you cannot grab their X sessions, can you?
>
> And here we are again at "Hey, $FOO doesn't work, I'll just do chmod  
> -R 777 * and see if that makes it work."
>
> Plus, the rogue employee may as well be the admin, and thus have  
> root rights on the machine where you're logged in.
>
> -Stefan

For X2Go we must assume that the root user is a trustworthy person.  
Otherwise we are completely lost.

Mike


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