On Jun 1, 2016 7:29 AM, "Tomasz Torcz" <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:04:27AM -0400, Dan Book wrote:
> > >
> > > Again, this isn't just work-arounds around broken programs. It's a
> > > security thing. It's privileged code (logind, PID 1) that enforces a
> > > clear life-cycle on unprivileged programs.
> > >
> > > Any scheme that relies on unprivileged programs "being nice" doesn't
> > > fix the inherent security problem: after logout a user should not be
> > > able consume further runtime resources on the system, regardless if he
> > > does that because of a bug or on purpose.
> > >
> > > Lennart
> >
> >
> > That's your opinion, and while many sysadmins may share it, many will not.
> > Having this as an optional security feature would be fantastic. Enforcing
> > it by default on every user many of which use tmux, screen, nohup, and & to
> > persist long running processes for daily work, is not something to do just
> > because you think it is what people should do.
>
> Just a little perspective – this isn't a new option. KillUserProcesses functionality
> seems to be added by
> commit 202630822f52e06dce8404633407329c38099278
> Date: Mon May 23 23:55:06 2011 +0200
>
> Five years ago, so basically from day one. We have this optional
> security feature – fantastic!
> Also, the concept of a ”session” isn't anything new, it's core UNIX
> concept (setsid() enyone?)
>
> I think that programs needing special treatment should use operating
> system's facilities to communicate that. So tmux, screen, nohup should
> really open a new session. It's unfortunate that tmux author is hostile
> against that, but maybe a clean, compile-time optional patch would persuade
> him?
You lost me. Tmux almost certainly *already* uses setsid(). The author is hostile to adding a dbus dependency to tmux to tell systemd that it wants a new session.
(I suspect that most terminal emulators also call setsid(), so this approach wouldn't actually work.)
--Andy
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