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From: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Subject: Re: inotify_rm_watch behavior
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:49:03 -0400
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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