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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: andrea@suse.de, chrisw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: disable-cap-mlock
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:45:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401184507.1f01920d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401183312.Z21045@build.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> > > just curious, how does this work through 'su'? Does su check
> > > logincap.conf too?
> > 
> > I guess so.
> 
> Or let pam_cap do it so you don't have to modify all the apps just the pam
> confs.

Well the message I'm receiving is that the userspace capability
infrastructure is a decrepit mess which nobody is fixing or maintaining.

Certainly, if we could arrange for pam_cap to be fixed and proselytized
that would be even better than bolting new workalike code into login and
su.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-02  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 13:59 disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 14:12 ` disable-cap-mlock Martin Zwickel
2004-04-01 16:48 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 16:59   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:11     ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:16     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:34       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:38         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:42           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:37       ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 17:44         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:49           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:51           ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:12             ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:52           ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:54             ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:47               ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 19:26                 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 20:23                   ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 21:13                     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 21:31                       ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 18:34       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 18:49         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 18:52         ` disable-cap-mlock Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-01 18:59         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:27         ` disable-cap-mlock James Morris
2004-04-02 10:39   ` disable-cap-mlock Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 23:44     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:44 ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 19:52   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 22:36     ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 22:43       ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 23:08       ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 23:26         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  0:59           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-01 22:29   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  1:07 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:18   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  1:30     ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:35       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:04         ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:13           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:21             ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:38               ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:48                 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:30   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  1:59     ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:09       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:30         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  2:33           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:45             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-02  2:51               ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  3:21                 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-02  2:41           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:49             ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  3:07               ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 21:35     ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 22:36       ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 22:56         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 23:01         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 23:18           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-05 12:13       ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley

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