Review Request 126276: Disable ptrace on kdesu

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Tue Dec 8 12:00:04 UTC 2015


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Review request for Plasma.


Repository: kde-cli-tools


Description
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This change protects against other user processes attaching to the kdesu
process to gain the root password.


Diffs
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  CMakeLists.txt 31209e049b0f054f88a8471cdfa34eb99b2d38da 
  config-kde-cli-tools.h.cmake f7eb81e3ab541faee2d8d6a15c870c68dd649dd2 
  kdesu/kdesu.cpp b82bdd4d7bdb3f8cf47fa46ac7d878d01f4cc551 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126276/diff/


Testing
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with the change: ptrace: Operation not permitted.
without I was able to set breakpoint in the checkPassword method.


Thanks,

Martin Gräßlin

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