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Posted: 2022-01-29 (UTC+00:00)
-Updated: 2022-11-14 (UTC+00:00)
-Anyone who cares about security may want to switch from systemd as soon as possible; its lead - developer doesn't care about your security at all.
-"You don't assign CVEs to every single random bugfix we do, do you?"-
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
-My thoughts:
- Yes, if they're security-related.
Source:
- systemd GitHub Issue 5998
"Humpf, I am not convinced this is the right way to announce this. We never did that, and half the - CVEs aren't useful anyway, hence I am not sure we should start with that now, because it is either - inherently incomplete or blesses the nonsensical part of the CVE circus which we really shouldn't - bless..."-
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
-My thoughts:
- CVEs are supposed to be for security, and a log of when they were found and their severity, so yes,
- it *is* the correct way to announce it. It seems as if over 95 security-concious people think the
- same.
Source:
- systemd GitHub Issue 6225
"I am not sure I buy enough into the security circus to do that though for any minor - issue..."-
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
-Source:
- systemd GitHub Issue 5144
"Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder which tool permitted you to create - it in the first place. Note that not permitting numeric first characters is done on purpose: to - avoid ambiguities between numeric UID and textual user names. --
- systemd will validate all configuration data you drop at it, making it hard to generate invalid - configuration. Hence, yes, it's a feature that we don't permit invalid user names, and I'd consider - it a limitation of xinetd that it doesn't refuse an invalid username.
-
- So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here. I understand this is annoying, but - still: the username is clearly not valid."
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
-My thoughts:
- systemd was the thing that allowed root access just because a username started with a number, then
- Poettering blamed the user.
Source:
- systemd GitHub Issue 6237
Posted: 2022-01-29 (UTC+00:00)
+Updated: 2022-11-14 (UTC+00:00)
+ +Anyone who cares about security may want to switch from systemd as soon as possible; its lead + developer doesn't care about your security at all.
+"You don't assign CVEs to every single random bugfix we do, do you?"+
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
+My thoughts:
+ Yes, if they're security-related.
Source:
+ systemd GitHub Issue 5998
"Humpf, I am not convinced this is the right way to announce this. We never did that, and half the + CVEs aren't useful anyway, hence I am not sure we should start with that now, because it is either + inherently incomplete or blesses the nonsensical part of the CVE circus which we really shouldn't + bless..."+
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
+My thoughts:
+ CVEs are supposed to be for security, and a log of when they were found and their severity, so yes,
+ it *is* the correct way to announce it. It seems as if over 95 security-concious people think the
+ same.
Source:
+ systemd GitHub Issue 6225
"I am not sure I buy enough into the security circus to do that though for any minor + issue..."+
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
+Source:
+ systemd GitHub Issue 5144
"Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder which tool permitted you to create + it in the first place. Note that not permitting numeric first characters is done on purpose: to + avoid ambiguities between numeric UID and textual user names. ++
+ systemd will validate all configuration data you drop at it, making it hard to generate invalid + configuration. Hence, yes, it's a feature that we don't permit invalid user names, and I'd consider + it a limitation of xinetd that it doesn't refuse an invalid username.
+
+ So, yeah, I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here. I understand this is annoying, but + still: the username is clearly not valid."
- Lennart Poettering, systemd lead developer
+My thoughts:
+ systemd was the thing that allowed root access just because a username started with a number, then
+ Poettering blamed the user.
Source:
+ systemd GitHub Issue 6237