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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-09-05 23:39:07 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080905233907-3rz7kuwyjwma0pjx
* Makefile (confdir/clients.conf): Tighten permissions to "u=rw".
  (install-server): Set mode of "/etc/mandos/clients.conf" to
                             "u=rw".
  (install-client): Set mode of "/etc/mandos/plugins.d" to "u=rwx".
  (uninstall-client): Also remove "/usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/usplash",
                "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mandos",
                      and "/etc/keys/mandos".
  (purge-server): Also remove "/var/run/mandos.pid".

* initramfs-tools-hook: Use "install" instead of "mkdir".  Change
                        owner of "/lib/mandos/plugins.d" and key
                        files.  Bug fix: do not repair permissions of
                        "/lib/mandos/plugins.d".  Bug fix: Really
                        avoid deliberately unreadable files and/or
                        directories.

* mandos-keygen (umask): Changed to "077".

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   not likely.  If someone does that, the whole system *will* lock
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   itself up completely, since Mandos servers are no longer running.
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   For sophisticated attackers who *could* do such a thing, *and* had
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   physical access to the server for enough time, it would be simpler
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   to get a key for an encrypted file system by using hardware memory
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   scanners and reading it right off the memory bus.
 
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   For sophisticated attackers who *could* do the clever thing, *and*
 
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   had physical access to the server for enough time, it would be
 
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   simpler to get a key for an encrypted file system by using hardware
 
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   memory scanners and reading it right off the memory bus.
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** Replay attacks?
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   Nope, the network stuff is all done over TLS, which provides