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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-07-30 16:30:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-07-30 16:30:04 +0200 |
| commit | 5a99e86ad2627d1d88232d87a31c07e92e4eb22a (patch) | |
| tree | 606dfd62ec228b48d66e03af418209b8e1ee7bbf /hurd/debugging | |
| parent | 37c3a2c8e6345514522e7583b89f655a24d1c6ea (diff) | |
hurd/debugging/rpctrace: More information.
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn | 12 |
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diff --git a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn index ee5ee3e7..de46c08d 100644 --- a/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn +++ b/hurd/debugging/rpctrace.mdwn @@ -39,3 +39,15 @@ See `rpctrace --help` about how to use it. <antrik> hm... for a funny effect, try running rpctrace on /servers/socket/1, and then use dpkg... ;-) + +* IRC, unknown channel, unknown date. + + <youpi> the problem of rpctrace is that it's a man in the middle :) + <youpi> so in principle, by design authentication stuff shouldn't work + <antrik> I don't think the Hurd auth mechanism in any way prevents or tries to prevent man-in-the-middle... + <youpi> maybe, but just try, you'll see all kinds of issue as soon as you have authentication stuff + <youpi> and the basic reason is that being a man in the middle needs special care + <youpi> which rpctrace doesn't completely do + <antrik> it's a while since I have dived into rpctrace; but AIUI, it should work just fine if the proxying is done properly + <antrik> note that there is a number of known bugs in rpctrace, for which zhengda has sent patches... though I haven't reviewed all of them I think + <antrik> there are some nasty Mach operations that are really hard to proxy -- but I don't think the auth mechanism needs any of these... |