Poettering:
- "You don't assign CVEs to every single random bugfix we do, do you?"
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.
Poettering:
- "Humpf, I am not convinced this is the right way to announce this. We never did that, and half the
+
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..." + 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,
@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@
Poettering:
- "I am not sure I buy enough into the security circus to do that though for any minor issue..."
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:
Issue #3 - Blaming the User
-
Poettering:
- "Yes, as you found out "0day" is not a valid username. I wonder which tool permitted you to create
+
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.+
+ 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." + 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