From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Confusing help texts?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:45:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211234557.GF16615@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021211224422.GA461@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:44:22PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> + * Prevents any programs running with egid == 0 if a specific USB device
> + * is not present in the system. Yes, it can be gotten around, but is a
> + * nice starting point for people to play with, and learn the LSM
> + * interface.
>
> How can you "prevent any program"?
Heh, it's confusing, sorry.
>
> + It enables control over processes being created by root users
> + if a specific USB device is not present in the system.
>
> Enables control over processes?
Basically, if the USB device is not in the system, then you can not
start any new program as egid = 0. That's all.
Patches gladly accepted to clean this stuff up :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 22:44 Confusing help texts? Pavel Machek
2002-12-11 23:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-12-12 0:15 ` "bio too big" error Wil Reichert
2002-12-12 9:12 ` Joe Thornber
2002-12-12 17:33 ` Wil Reichert
2002-12-12 21:51 ` Kevin Corry
2002-12-13 8:41 ` [lvm-devel] " Joe Thornber
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