[Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] Set the permissions correctly on the XML-RPC UDP socket, so that non-root users

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:36:45AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
> > Did you see this failure after changing the socket location to 
> > /var/run/xend/xml-rpc.sock?  The only way the permissions of 
> > /var/run/xend-xmlrpc.sock should be non-root is if /var/run has non root 
> > permissions.  Was that the case?
> >     
> We were seeing the failure intermittently, even when the socket was in
> /var/run.
>   
Interesting, that's really good to know for the future.

Thanks,

Anthony Liguori

> According to unix(7), on Linux, "sockets honour the permissions of the
> directory they are in", so it seems to me to be safest to have our own
> dedicated directory, so that we can guarantee the permissions on that are
> correct.
>
> Ewan.
>   
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