From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>,
Chris Friedhoff <chris@friedhoff.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: security: introduce file caps
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:22:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061123002207.5e18bade.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061123001458.fe73f64a.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:14:58 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:06:55 -0600
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Implement file posix capabilities. This allows programs to be given
> > a subset of root's powers regardless of who runs them, without
> > having to use setuid and giving the binary all of root's powers.
>
> With this patch applied, my X server fails to exit when I do the normal
> logout thing from the KDE menus.
After a manual kill of the X server I see on the VT:
xinit: Operation not permitted (errno 1): Can't kill X server
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-23 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-14 3:06 Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-15 8:55 ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-23 8:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 8:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
[not found] ` <20061123131203.f7b6972f.chris@friedhoff.org>
2006-11-23 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 21:41 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-23 23:21 ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-24 16:16 ` file caps: permit unsafe signaling when CONFIG_FS_CAPS=n Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-24 18:17 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-25 21:19 ` Chris Friedhoff
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