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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backout the xattr override access checks flag
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:20:58 -0700
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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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