Information Assurance

Information Assurance

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You have already written a program that provides password access to a file on the class linux system. Now you are going to revise your project, taking into account the things we are learning about secure programming. You should definitely be checking to make sure that your programs are secure against buffer overflows and other malicious input. The goals again are the same, but you will be graded on the security of your program. I will be installing a static analysis tool that will help you audit your code; I will send mail to the class when I have finished doing so.

Write a secure suid program that will allow others to access a file in your account on ia-class.

• Your program should be named <user_name>.exe. Even though linix ignores the .exe suffix, we will use that to identify which is the executable.
• It should read a password from a user who runs the program.
• If the password is valid, print the contents of an existing file named <user_name>.txt.
• Your program will also log who accessed <user_name>.txt in another file named <user_name>.log
• Rather than have a single password for file access, you will have separate passwords that can be issued to different possible users.
• You can use only passwords as identifiers, or you can assign each user a name at your discretion.
• Provide a mechanism for adding and removing users who may access the file. This does not have to be fancy, and can be part of your suid program, or can be some simple mechanism like hand-editing a configuration file.
• If you use a configuration file, it should be named <user_name>.cfg.

To test your program, you can suid it to your own name and run it yourself from your secretid account. To make your program suid:

• Make sure it is executable by doing chmod a+x <user_name>.exe
• Make it suid by doing chmod +s <user_name>.exe

When done testing it, I recommend that you unset the suid bit by doing chmod -s <user_name>.exe. This is more secure for the files in your account.

What to turn in:

First, you will create a separate directory in your account on ia-class named NETID-project3 where NETID is your login. Place in this directory a copy of the source code, the executable, the text file to be accessed, and any configuration files required. Do not include any object files you create.

Second, You will mail the instructor a tar file of this directory. You can create this by using the command:

tar -cf NETID.tar NETID-project3

Projects are due before class on March 27, 2006.