Review Request 126276: Disable ptrace on kdesu

[Martin Gräßlin]

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(Updated Dec. 17, 2015, 12:28 p.m.)


Status
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This change has been marked as submitted.


Review request for Plasma.


Changes
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Submitted with commit 034b5c39e49ce946ca97f0d003a4b4f144b10d39 by Martin Gräßlin to branch master.


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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