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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Friedhoff <chris@friedhoff.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: security: introduce file caps
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:39:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061123103920.8d908952.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061123131203.f7b6972f.chris@friedhoff.org>

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:12:03 +0100
Chris Friedhoff <chris@friedhoff.org> wrote:

> xinit respects capabilities (at least i guess), so when the system has
> capability-support, the binary /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit neeeds the
> capability cap_kill even when no capability extended attribute exists
> for this binary.
> 
> setfcaps cap_kill=ep /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
> 
> I documented this here:
> http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html#Xorg,%20xinit,%20xfce,%20kde
> 
> and for more:
> http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html
> 

Even when CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES=n?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-14  3:06 security: introduce file caps Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-15  8:55 ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-23  8:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23  8:22   ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <20061123131203.f7b6972f.chris@friedhoff.org>
2006-11-23 18:39       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-11-23 21:41         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-23 23:21           ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-24 16:16         ` file caps: permit unsafe signaling when CONFIG_FS_CAPS=n Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-24 18:17           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-25 21:19             ` Chris Friedhoff

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