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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Confusing help texts?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:45:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211234557.GF16615@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021211224422.GA461@elf.ucw.cz>

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:44:22PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> + * Prevents any programs running with egid == 0 if a specific USB device
> + * is not present in the system.  Yes, it can be gotten around, but is a
> + * nice starting point for people to play with, and learn the LSM
> + * interface.
> 
> How can you "prevent any program"?

Heh, it's confusing, sorry.

> 
> +         It enables control over processes being created by root users
> +         if a specific USB device is not present in the system.
> 
> Enables control over processes?

Basically, if the USB device is not in the system, then you can not
start any new program as egid = 0.  That's all.

Patches gladly accepted to clean this stuff up :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-11 22:44 Confusing help texts? Pavel Machek
2002-12-11 23:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-12-12  0:15   ` "bio too big" error Wil Reichert
2002-12-12  9:12     ` Joe Thornber
2002-12-12 17:33       ` Wil Reichert
2002-12-12 21:51       ` Kevin Corry
2002-12-13  8:41         ` [lvm-devel] " Joe Thornber

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