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Subject: Re: Review Request 125641: Allow PAM unlocking of a running wallet
From: "Valentin Rusu" <valir () kde ! org>
Date: 2015-11-06 22:19:52
Message-ID: 20151106221952.24343.83752 () mimi ! kde ! org
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Ship it!
Ship It!
- Valentin Rusu
On Oct. 16, 2015, 4:52 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 16, 2015, 4:52 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Valentin Rusu.
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> Repository: kwallet
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> Description
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> A use-case: kwallet gets locked with lockscreen, eg. on Plasma Mobile, unlocking \
> the screen would also unlock kwallet through PAM.
> Another use-case: automatic login that shows lockscreen after booting, unlocking \
> that session would also unlock kwallet through PAM.
> This requires a small change in kwallet-pam.
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> Now to the patch itself. When a user authenticates via lockscreen, PAM can start \
> the kwalletd process and pass the auth hash token to it. In case the kwalletd \
> process is already running, this patch would check if the wallet is opened and if \
> not, it would pass the PAM hash token over dbus to the running kwallet instance \
> which would unlock the running wallet. If it is unlocked, nothing would happen.
> I originally didn't want to pass it over dbus, but in the end it doesn't matter \
> because as soon as the session is unlocked (at this point the hash is sent), the \
> wallet would be unlocked and a possible attacker would have access to its data \
> anyway. But I'm open to suggestions on improvements.
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> Diffs
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> src/runtime/kwalletd/main.cpp fbab58d
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125641/diff/
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> Testing
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> I've created a special PAM profile which has
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> auth optional pam_kwallet5.so lockscreen kwalletd=/opt/kde5/bin/kwalletd5
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> ran kcheckpass -c myprofile and kwallet5 got started and unlocked. Then I locked \
> the wallet using kwalletmanager5, ran kcheckpass -c myprofile again and the running \
> kwallet5 instance got unlocked.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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<p>- Valentin Rusu</p>
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<p>On October 16th, 2015, 4:52 p.m. UTC, Martin Klapetek wrote:</p>
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<div>Review request for KDE Frameworks and Valentin Rusu.</div>
<div>By Martin Klapetek.</div>
<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated Oct. 16, 2015, 4:52 p.m.</i></p>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt;">Repository: </b>
kwallet
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: \
-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;"><p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: \
inherit;white-space: inherit;">A use-case: kwallet gets locked with lockscreen, eg. \
on Plasma Mobile, unlocking the screen would also unlock kwallet through PAM.</p> <p \
style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: \
inherit;">Another use-case: automatic login that shows lockscreen after booting, \
unlocking that session would also unlock kwallet through PAM.</p> <p style="padding: \
0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">This \
requires a small change in kwallet-pam.</p> <p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: \
inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Now to the patch \
itself. When a user authenticates via lockscreen, PAM can start the kwalletd process \
and pass the auth hash token to it. In case the kwalletd process is already running, \
this patch would check if the wallet is opened and if not, it would pass the PAM hash \
token over dbus to the running kwallet instance which would unlock the running \
wallet. If it is unlocked, nothing would happen.</p> <p style="padding: \
0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">I \
originally didn't want to pass it over dbus, but in the end it doesn't matter because \
as soon as the session is unlocked (at this point the hash is sent), the wallet would \
be unlocked and a possible attacker would have access to its data anyway. But I'm \
open to suggestions on improvements.</p></pre> </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: \
-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;"><p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: \
inherit;white-space: inherit;">I've created a special PAM profile which has</p> <p \
style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: \
inherit;">auth optional pam_kwallet5.so lockscreen \
kwalletd=/opt/kde5/bin/kwalletd5</p> <p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: \
inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">ran kcheckpass -c \
myprofile and kwallet5 got started and unlocked. Then I locked the wallet using \
kwalletmanager5, ran kcheckpass -c myprofile again and the running kwallet5 instance \
got unlocked.</p></pre> </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<li>src/runtime/kwalletd/main.cpp <span style="color: grey">(fbab58d)</span></li>
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<p><a href="https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125641/diff/" style="margin-left: \
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