From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, agruen@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backout the xattr override access checks flag
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:20:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220132058.E1723@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220222007.A21678@sgi.com>; from hch@sgi.com on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:20:07PM -0500
On Feb 20, 2003 22:20 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> - if (!((flags & XATTR_KERNEL_CONTEXT) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)))
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
How about using CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE instead of CAP_SYS_ADMIN, since the
latter is _way_ over used, and basically amounts to a uid=0 test these
days.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 3:20 [PATCH] backout the xattr override access checks flag Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-20 20:20 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2003-02-20 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-21 10:20 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2003-02-21 15:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-21 16:32 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-21 12:50 Luka Renko
2003-02-21 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-23 19:28 Luka Renko
2003-02-23 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-23 22:16 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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