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Bug 653856 - "persist" cmd should check input for read-only system files
Summary: "persist" cmd should check input for read-only system files
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ovirt-node
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
: 6.2
Assignee: Mike Burns
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-16 10:00 UTC by Pengzhen Cao
Modified: 2016-04-26 13:41 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-10-20 13:26:21 UTC
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Description Pengzhen Cao 2010-11-16 10:00:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
"persist" cmd in rhevh do not check the file name  user inputed to persist,thus we can persist a system file, such as "/sbin/init", "/usr/sbin/ovirt-config-setup". This is insecure and will fail if we want to unpersist these files. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.6 and 6.0

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. persist "/sbin/scsi_id"
2. unpersist "/sbin/scsi_id"
3.
  
Actual results:
file can be persisted but can not be unpersisted

Expected results:
There should be a check, if user want to persist read-only files then it will not proceed.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Perry Myers 2011-10-20 13:26:21 UTC 
The persist functionality is not supported for end-user usage, so closing this bug
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