Re: Access Control for RTEMS Shell

2014-11-19 Thread Joel Sherrill
On 11/19/2014 4:54 PM, Peter Dufault wrote: > Are the UID and GID per-thread? I assume two different telnet sessions would > have different credentials. They can and do now if you want to try the telnetd example. There is an rtems and a root account as I recall. One can't write to parts of the f

Re: Access Control for RTEMS Shell

2014-11-19 Thread Peter Dufault
Are the UID and GID per-thread? I assume two different telnet sessions would have different credentials. I strongly agree that there is a need for credentials in embedded applications, but I don't see that they can be tied to the RTEMS shell. I'm not sure how UID and GID work in a single proc

Re: Access Control for RTEMS Shell

2014-11-18 Thread Sebastian Huber
The goal is to provide different command sets for different users. For example a system could give the customer a certain command set and the service personal a different one which includes also maintenance operations. Most of the infrastructure was already present. There were just some missi

Re: Access Control for RTEMS Shell

2014-11-18 Thread Gedare Bloom
Could you briefly explain a bit more context about the goals for implementing access control? That is, is it for compliance to some standard, to address a security need, or something else? Thanks, Gedare On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: > This patch set adds access control