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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>,
	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 20:26:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220202621.A11571@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220132058.E1723@schatzie.adilger.int>; from adilger@clusterfs.com on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:20:58PM -0700

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:20:58PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 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.

It's not a DAC override strictly spoken.  But I agree with you that it
shouldn't be CAP_SYS_ADMIN (see my previous discussion with Andreas).

Neverless this is purely a change to backout the flags change and I don't
want to mix up too much.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 20:26 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
2003-02-20 20:26   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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