Re: [devel] [PATCH hasher-priv v1 0/3] Make a daemon from the hasher-priv

[Alexey Gladkov <legion@altlinux.ru>]

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On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 12:53:45AM +0300, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:01:29PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:44:00PM +0300, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 07:21:11PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 04:09:35PM +0300, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:42:02PM +0100, Alex Gladkov wrote:
> > > > > > From: Alexey Gladkov <legion@altlinux.org>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The hasher-priv is a SUID utility. This is not good. Separation of the
> > > > > > server and client parts will allow us to remove SUID flag.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The separation of server and client is not intended to give clients
> > > > > > access over the network. This separation is only necessary to distinguish
> > > > > > privileges. Only UNIX domain socket is used.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > A separate session process is created for each connected user. Each such
> > > > > > process ends after a certain period of inactivity.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thank you for trying this idea out; despite the trolling attempts, this
> > > > > effort is long welcome.
> > > > 
> > > > I created this patchset a long time ago. I've already lost my context. It
> > > > might be better if you keep working on this patch.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Great! I'd like to work on this further.
> > 
> > You have asked many questions. I didn’t answer everything because these
> > patches are already 5 years old and I can hardly remember what I had in my
> > head when I did them. Submitting patches to the mailing list was the
> > second attempt to upstream them. Actually, I was afraid of losing them
> > altogether, so I merged some of the patches. Originally I had about 10
> > patches in a patchset.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if I have time for this rework. But we can try.
> 
> So, I guess you won't mind if I would prepare a v2 which fixes some of
> the issues discussed, based on my repo. We're in no hurry, since Dmitry
> is currently away for the next couple of weeks.

Sure! I have been waiting for a reaction for 5 years. We are definitely in
no hurry :)

> > We can
> > discuss the hasher-privd in russian if you like :)
> 
> I'm personally fine with both english and russian; looks like you're too.
> The remaining concerns are:
> * if everyone else interested can respond and continue the conversation
> * if the community around hasher ever goes international.

I can hardly imagine a situation that someone who is not russian speaking
would want to discuss these patches in this mailing list. If that happens
then I'll probably eat my red hat :)

> I responded in english, since the patch messages were in english, and in
> that case I usually take the (nowadays rare with covid) opportunity to
> practice. Если же то, на что я отвечаю, пишут по-русски, то и отвечать,
> наверное, следует тоже по-русски.

Я тоже стараюсь придерживаться такого подхода.

> Если вдруг чувствуете, что лучше по-русски, можете на русский переключаться.

Я пишу по-английски хуже и медленнее. Просто Дима меня совсем бы не понял,
если бы я коммиты по-русски написал :)

> Ну и иногда пишешь что-то по-русски в некоторый
> профессионально-технический разговор, а в реплике столько оказывается
> непереводных терминов и собственных имён, что уж лучше по-английски бы писал. :) 

Зато это мне лишняя практика русского :)

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Rgrds, legion


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