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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andreas Kling
439f447ba8 LibCore+su+passwd: Don't keep /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow open
Now that we've moved to atomic replacement of these files when altering
them, we don't need to keep them open for the lifetime of Core::Account
so just simplify this and close them when they are not needed.
2021-01-21 11:17:06 +01:00
Andreas Kling
77e0598c6d passwd+LibCore: Make passwd replace /etc files atomically
Before this patch, we had a nasty race condition when changing a user's
password: there was a time window between truncating /etc/shadow and
writing out its new contents, where you could simply "su" to root
without using a password.

Instead of writing directly to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, we now
create temporary files in /etc and fill them with the new contents.
Those files are then atomically renamed to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

Sadly, fixing this race requires giving the passwd program a lot more
privileges. This is something we can and should improve upon. :^)
2021-01-21 11:08:20 +01:00
Andreas Kling
13d7c09125 Libraries: Move to Userland/Libraries/ 2021-01-12 12:17:46 +01:00
Renamed from Libraries/LibCore/Account.cpp (Browse further)