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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2012-11-11 21:32:22 +1100
committerMichael Adam <obnox@samba.org>2012-11-12 12:36:27 +0100
commit18e13224eb75349fc9790f20aab125f485979760 (patch)
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ntp_signd: Only allow group access to the ntp signd directory.
Existing installations running ntp as group 'ntp' will need to change the permissions on the ntp_signd socket directory (eg PREFIX/lib/ntp_signd or /var/lib/samba/ntp_signd) The reason is that allowing other users on the host access to this directory would allow them to potentially spoof time on the network, or attack the password database with a chosen plaintext attack. Permissions should be changed to: ownership root:ntp (if ntp runs as gid ntp) mode 0750 (this is what it will be created as) If the permissions are not changed, Samba will refuse to start the ntp_signd server, and NTP operations will not be signed. As the error is declared fatal, in the future, Samba may totally refused to start. Andrew Bartlett Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> Autobuild-User(master): Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> Autobuild-Date(master): Mon Nov 12 12:36:30 CET 2012 on sn-devel-104
Diffstat (limited to 'source4/ntp_signd')
-rw-r--r--source4/ntp_signd/ntp_signd.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/source4/ntp_signd/ntp_signd.c b/source4/ntp_signd/ntp_signd.c
index 1de9cc30f9..0c3899fc55 100644
--- a/source4/ntp_signd/ntp_signd.c
+++ b/source4/ntp_signd/ntp_signd.c
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static void ntp_signd_task_init(struct task_server *task)
const char *address;
- if (!directory_create_or_exist(lpcfg_ntp_signd_socket_directory(task->lp_ctx), geteuid(), 0755)) {
+ if (!directory_create_or_exist(lpcfg_ntp_signd_socket_directory(task->lp_ctx), geteuid(), 0750)) {
char *error = talloc_asprintf(task, "Cannot create NTP signd pipe directory: %s",
lpcfg_ntp_signd_socket_directory(task->lp_ctx));
task_server_terminate(task,