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

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-2.0: privileged port connections
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:36:39 +0100
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Hi,

as discussed previously, I went ahead and introduced a setting that
allows you to restrict the stuff you can when controlling xen by
connecting to the port 8000 unless you connect from a privileged
port.

I did not yet bother to look at the event port nor did I try to address
the consoles. The consoles will be done in a second patch if this 
approach is deemed appropriate. 

Note that I also do still allow unprivileged connections still to gather
most of the information. This can be debated, but I'm not such a big fan
of security by obscurity.

I hope I did not miss anything important for the control stuff.

The patch also fixes one typo (missing ") in SrvNode.py.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>             [Koeln, DE]
Physics:Plasma modeling <garloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [TU Eindhoven, NL]
Linux: SUSE Labs (Director)    <garloff@xxxxxxx>            [Novell Inc]

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