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  • cizra@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    What’s an rpc port anyway? Do you mean DBus? Then FS perms of the socket. Perhaps also something in the protocol itself.

    • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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      12 days ago

      I meant to write socket instead of port because I was tired.

      If for example a program can take rpc over a socket which is a file somewhere is it just the filesystem permissions that determine what can be done or is there more at play?

      • cizra@lemm.ee
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        12 days ago

        FS permissions are the main thing, yes. One can build more systems around it (don’t mount the socket into a Flatpak container, if you don’t want the Flatpak to talk to DBus) or (implement some sort of auth protocol like TLS does).