From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
Cc: Linux Kernel mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM mailing-list <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: add a mount option to make caps inheritable, re-enable CAP_SETPCAP
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:56:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060919195603.GC7246@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060915153918.GA29528@clipper.ens.fr>
Hi!
> Attempt to make capabilities mildly useful, without breaking anything
> and while still adhering to POSIX.1e semantics:
>
> * add a "inhcaps" mount option (MS_INHCAPS) which provides full
> executable inheritable and effective sets (we cannot provide
> finer-grained control over the mask, as fs-independent mount
> options are only one bit wide each);
> * re-enable CAP_SETPCAP which had been disabled following an
> incorrect analysis of a past sendmail security hole.
Okay, I guess these two should go as a separate patches... Otherwise
patch looks okay to me.
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Pavel
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2006-09-15 15:39 David Madore
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