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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-2.0: privileged port connections



Kurt Garloff wrote:

Hi Anthony,

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
So, here's my concerns:

1) ports < 1024 are reserved although 732 is currently unassigned

Note that NFS uses such ports without asking prior permission.
I chose 732 because it's unassigned indeed.

I know. That's one of the reasons using this port worries me. There may be nfs related conflicts.

4) you still have to find a way to deal with the consoles

Before I start working on getting the consoles under control, I wanted to see whether this approach is acceptable at all.
How would you extend this to consoles? Each console can't have it's own privileged port :-)

5) you still have to deal with xfrd

It seems to listen on *:8002 ... Is there no authentication either? Sigh.
Nope. I think there are a few options. We could use hosts.allow or something similiar, we could restrict it to subnets, or we could try and implement some sort of authentication mechanism.

Perhaps shutting it off by default and making it clear that it is insecure is enough.

And we probably need to look into the event channel (8001) as well.
Yeah.

But for Xen-2, let's try to find a pragmatic way that enables desktop
users to install and test xen without raising too many security concerns.
I full-heartedly agree.  I'll gladly help out on this effort.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori

Regards,



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