From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:19:58 +0000 (-0400) Subject: noting that list-identity-certifiers should be running as a non-privileged user. X-Git-Tag: monkeysphere_0.8-1~12^2 X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=monkeysphere.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9acc1237d8e21d74fe7070af1b061c888664e8b noting that list-identity-certifiers should be running as a non-privileged user. --- diff --git a/website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn b/website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cbd1af --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/list-id-certifiers-should-run-non-priv.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[meta title="list-identity-certfiers should run as the non-privileged user"]] + +Right now, `monkeysphere-server list-identity-certifiers` runs as the +superuser, and just lists the keys in the host's keyring. This might +not be the actual list of valid id certifiers, for a number of reasons: + +* the keys themselves might have been revoked by the owner + +* the id-certifiers might have been added with a different trust + level, or a regexp/domain limitation. + +It would make more sense to derive the list of trusted certifiers +directly from the keyrings as seen by the non-privileged +`monkeysphere` user, since this user's keyrings are what are going to +judge the validity of various user IDs.