From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] libcap: introduce CAP_SYSLOG
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:23:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110113162310.GA4044@swordfish> (raw)
Since commit 38ef4c2e437d11b5922723504b62824e96761459 syslog
operations require CAP_SYSLOG capability (intoriduced by commit
ce6ada35bdf710d16582cc4869c26722547e6f11), not CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Patch introduces CAP_SYSLOG capability.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
---
libcap/include/linux/capability.h | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libcap/include/linux/capability.h b/libcap/include/linux/capability.h
index 39e5ff5..4924f2a 100644
--- a/libcap/include/linux/capability.h
+++ b/libcap/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -355,7 +355,12 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
#define CAP_MAC_ADMIN 33
-#define CAP_LAST_CAP CAP_MAC_ADMIN
+
+/* Privileged syslog operations currently require CAP_SYSLOG.
+ CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not acceptable anymore. */
+#define CAP_SYSLOG 34
+
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP CAP_SYSLOG
#define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)
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