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From: "Bill O'Donnell" <billodo@sgi.com>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Chris Friedhoff <chris@friedhoff.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement file posix capabilities
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:30:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070124163004.GA15979@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4570F373.5090608@kaigai.gr.jp>

I'm in the process of testing the (backported) capabilities patch 
and Kaigai's userspace tools on a SLES10 based x86-64 target (2.6.16).  
Chris Friedhoff's examples (http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html)
run cleanly.  That said, can one expect, through the use of these
enhanced capabilities, to be able to add some finer grain 
capabilities based on a specific userid?  In Chris' ping example,
the suid is removed from /bin/ping to restrict it to root, and a 
capability added to allow any user to execute it.  Can that example
be extended to make it so only a _particular_ user can execute it?
I realize with SELinux, one could achieve the goal, but as a stopgap,
can capabilities be used to get there?
Thanks,
Bill

-- 
Bill O'Donnell
SGI
billodo@sgi.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-24 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-27 17:07 [PATCH] Implement file posix capabilities Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-29 10:28 ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-29 20:40   ` Bill O'Donnell
2006-11-30 18:05     ` Bill O'Donnell
2006-11-30 22:57       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-12-01 19:28         ` Bill O'Donnell
2006-12-02  3:30         ` KaiGai Kohei
2007-01-24 16:30           ` Bill O'Donnell [this message]
2007-01-24 20:24             ` Casey Schaufler

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