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From: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
To: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, agruen@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: turn on by default
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:37:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B744AE.5040606@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe7784a0710a8fef0ac2e4f39589dff6f8293ad0.1219951973.git.serue@us.ibm.com>

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Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>

Cheers

Andrew

Serge Hallyn wrote:
| Now that file capabilities can be turned off at boot, go ahead
| and compile them into the kernel by default by making
| CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y the default.
|
| Note that the boot flag no_file_caps must be specified to turn
| file capabilities off, as by default they are on.  So the
| default behavior is in fact changed.
|
| Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
| ---
|  security/Kconfig |    7 +++++--
|  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
|
| diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
| index 5592939..6fbb233 100644
| --- a/security/Kconfig
| +++ b/security/Kconfig
| @@ -75,12 +75,15 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM
|
|  config SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
|  	bool "File POSIX Capabilities"
| -	default n
| +	default y
|  	help
|  	  This enables filesystem capabilities, allowing you to give
|  	  binaries a subset of root's powers without using setuid 0.
|
| -	  If in doubt, answer N.
| +	  You can still boot with the no_file_caps option to disable
| +	  file capabilities.
| +
| +	  If in doubt, answer Y.
|
|  config SECURITY_ROOTPLUG
|  	bool "Root Plug Support"
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-29  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 19:54 [PATCH 1/2] file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v2) Serge Hallyn
2008-08-28 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: turn on by default Serge Hallyn
2008-08-29  0:37   ` Andrew G. Morgan [this message]
2008-08-29  0:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v2) Andrew G. Morgan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-22 18:48 Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-22 18:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: turn on by default Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-22 19:03   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-22 19:56     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-22 21:09       ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-22 22:53       ` Chris Wright

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