AF_UNIX relaxed security patch
Jason Tishler
jason@tishler.net
Thu Aug 16 07:07:00 GMT 2001
I believe that the following patch:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2001-q3/msg00056.html
and specifically this portion:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc.diff?cvsroot=uberbaum&r1=1.12&r2=1.13
is preventing PostgreSQL AF_UNIX socket clients from being able to
connect to postmaster when it is running under a different user account.
This lead to the following bug report on the Cygwin mailing list:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00018.html
The attached patch relaxes the security so that this problem is mitigated.
However, I admit to not fully grokking the security ramification of
my change. Did I open up access to secret_event too much? Is there a
better way to fix this problem?
Thanks,
Jason
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