D10141: Restore Persistence=session for the file ioslave kauth helper

[Fabian Vogt]

fvogt added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D10141#203726, @aacid wrote:
  
  > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D10141#203664, @fvogt wrote:
  >
  > > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D10141#203545, @chinmoyr wrote:
  > >
  > > > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D10141#197039, @fvogt wrote:
  > > >
  > > > > There is one issue I have with this. While this is close to the `sudo`-mode of temporary authorization grants, it doesn't work that way as the whole session has full access via file.so.
  > > >
  > > >
  > > > How exactly? Is there any way for an application to choose a slave process instead of being assigned one at random?
  > >
  > >
  > > There isn't. Which makes any mitigation attempt impossible.
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  >
  > There actually kind of is, kio has this "special" mode called KDE_FORK_SLAVES in which slaves are directly forked by the app instead of by klauncher. I'm not sure how much that would help here. Maybe @dfaure can shed some light?
  
  
  The issue is that file.so decides whether to use the helper or not, so this doesn't actually help.

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To: elvisangelaccio, lbeltrame, dfaure, davidedmundson, fvogt, chinmoyr
Cc: aacid, #frameworks, michaelh, ngraham
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