Lerc/userserv
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A static http server that serves with the permissions of individual Linux users
6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2014-06-30 · latest 2025-05-26
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Arrgh, now I get to live with the shame of someone looking at my code. Be wary of the https://github.com/Lerc/userserv component, because that's the bit that is only really proof-of-concept level and runs as root. It's the bit that allows…
comment by Lerc · 2025-05-26 -
https://github.com/Lerc/userserv/blob/master/authenticationt... This looks like something right out of a CTF. I'm pretty sure you can overflow that buffer and smash the stack. It's also vulnerable to a path traversal attack. What happens…
comment by muricula · 2018-03-13 · in Writing a Microservice in Rust -
There's a version of some vintage at https://github.com/Lerc/userserv (it's terrible, don't judge me) It has node bits there but they aren't necessary for the basic static serving. If it gets a WebSocket connection it punts it on to node.
comment by Lerc · 2018-03-08 · in Writing a Microservice in Rust -
…I needed to write a server designed specifically for the task at hand. In the end I wrote userserv https://github.com/Lerc/userserv for the one must have feature I needed. I needed logins and responses delivered from a process with the UID…
comment by Lerc · 2015-02-15 · in Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets -
…the output of "ls -al urlpath" was vastly easier to deal with. In the longer term I wrote a server https://github.com/Lerc/userserv It might be worth me revisiting userserv to switch to the SpockFS protocol. Currently I use a websocket…
comment by Lerc · 2015-01-09 · in SpockFS – An HTTP-based network filesystem -
…the system evolved into https://github.com/Lerc/notanos Which uses it's own custom server https://github.com/Lerc/userserv which uses your unix login and statically serves files that your logged-in user is allowed to see.
comment by Lerc · 2014-06-30 · in The HTML5 appcache is the New Bootloader