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Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic

From Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic
Date 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200
Message-ID <uzTZJ-34a-181@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

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Package: usbip
Severity: wishlist

Some tools (like Gnuk) offer USB device emulation, exported to the host
for testing via usbip.

However, when using usbip in this way, any local user account with
packet-sniffing privilege (e.g. members of group "wireshark" in a common
debian convention) get access to the traffic over the USB port.

It would be great to enable usbip-style device exposure over a
SOCK_STREAM unix-domain socket as well as a TCP-based socket, since this
would make it possible to provide emulated USB devices without routing
traffic through the networking stack.

        --dkg

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Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> - 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200
  Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200

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