Review Request 116555: Add support for pam-kwallet in kwalletd

[Albert Astals Cid]

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The Beta 1 of 4.13 is on Wednesday. Can the maintainer of the code affected by this give a evaluation of how "dangerous" this patch is and his recommendation for the Freeze exception?

- Albert Astals Cid


On March 2, 2014, 11:33 p.m., Àlex Fiestas wrote:
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> (Updated March 2, 2014, 11:33 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Runtime, Release Team and Valentin Rusu.
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> Repository: kde-runtime
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> Description
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> This patch adds support for pam-kwallet (in my scratch right now, to be released soon).
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> This is how the new pam works, and why this patch is needed:
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> In order to open the wallet in a secure way we have to try hard to not send the hash on an 
> insecure manner. This is how we achieve that:
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> -pam_kwallet creates a pipe.
> -pam_kwallet opens a local socket listening somewhere (/tmp/foo.socket for example).
> -pam_kwallet forks+execv kwallet, passing via arguments the sockets (pipe and local socket).
> -pam_kwallet sends the hash via the pipe.
> -kwalletd gets the hash and waits for the environment.
> -startkde uses "socat" to send the environment to kwalletd.
> -kwalletd setups the environment before any Qt code is executed.
> -kwalletd resumes execution.
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> With this way of executing kwallet we get:
> -pam_kwallet knows to who it is sending the hash (its on child).
> -hash is never revealed on shared memory (dbus), since pipes are private to the apps.
> -ptrace is usually disabled so only root can see the hash on the app memory
> -no Qt code is executed without the proper environment (same as startkde)
> -if kwalletd is executed normally (not from pam_kwallet) then it is business as usual.
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> The patch also comes with integration tests that simulate how kwalletd is executed in the pam module.
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> For the release team, I would love to add this to 4.13, after all it is innocuous if kwalletd is not executed via pam_module.
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> Diffs
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>   kwalletd/CMakeLists.txt e9aef16 
>   kwalletd/autotests/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/autotests/kdewallet.kwl PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/autotests/kwalletexecuter.h PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/autotests/kwalletexecuter.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/autotests/qtest_kwallet.h PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/autotests/testpamopen.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/autotests/testpamopennofile.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kwalletd/main.cpp f9af414 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116555/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Àlex Fiestas
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