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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: "Stephen D. Smalley" <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add LSM sysctl hook to 2.5.59
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:43:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120004320.A10659@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301200139.39092.russell@coker.com.au>; from russell@coker.com.au on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:39:39AM +0100

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:39:39AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > What's the reason you can't just live with DAC for sysctls?
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "live with DAC" in this context?  If you mean 
> "allow UID==0 processes to do whatever they like" then it's not going to work 
> for any sort of chroot setup.

This means check the unix file permissions / ACLs only overriden by
CAP_FOWNER processes.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-20  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-17 21:54 [RFC][PATCH] Add LSM sysctl hook to 2.5.59 Stephen D. Smalley
2003-01-20  0:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-20  0:39   ` Russell Coker
2003-01-20  0:43     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-20  1:05       ` Russell Coker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-21 14:51 Stephen D. Smalley

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