From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore T'so" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extended attribute fixes, etc.
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:09:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030215210922.A24685@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302152017.03259.agruen@suse.de>; from agruen@suse.de on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:17:03PM +0100
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:17:03PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> That sounds quite reasonable. I would have to raise CAP_SYS_ADMIN for
> trusted EA's, though. Do you see any potential side effects while a
> pretty powerful capability like CAP_SYS_ADMIN is temporarily raised?
Okay, something I missed when looking over your patches, otherwise I'd
have shutde earlier :) Do you really think you want CAP_SYS_ADMIN for
trusted EAs? Soon we'll get CAP_SYS_ADMIN as catchall like old suser()..
Let me check what XFS uses for that purpose as soon as I'm back in the
office.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-15 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-11 19:18 [PATCH] Extended attribute fixes, etc Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-11 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-12 11:03 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-15 11:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 17:59 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-15 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 19:17 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-15 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-02-15 21:39 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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