From: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: redhat-lspp <redhat-lspp@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: inotify_rm_watch behavior
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:49:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060911184903.GA32335@fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609111505.24567.efleury@br.ibm.com>
Eduardo Madeira Fleury wrote: [Mon Sep 11 2006, 02:05:24PM EDT]
> I'm doing some tests and currently inotify_rm_watch is not performing any
> permission checks, i.e., an ordinary user can remove a watch set by root on a
> file with root:root 400 permission.
>
> Is this the expected behavior? Seems like neither MAC nor MLS checks are being
> done.
Yes. As I understand it, an inotify watch is not a data object, and
so does not require DAC or MAC checks.
Amy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-11 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 18:05 inotify_rm_watch behavior Eduardo Madeira Fleury
2006-09-11 18:48 ` Stephen Smalley
2006-09-11 18:49 ` Amy Griffis [this message]
2006-09-11 19:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2006-09-11 19:34 ` Amy Griffis
2006-09-12 13:45 ` Stephen Smalley
2006-09-12 14:09 ` [redhat-lspp] " Darrel Goeddel
2006-09-12 14:10 ` Stephen Smalley
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