From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
xemul@parallels.com, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: CAP_SYS_ADMIN on restart(2)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:29:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090416162910.GA20736@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416153513.GA7876@x200.localdomain>
Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@gmail.com):
> > What Alexey wants, I believe, is for users to be able to not have
> > to worry about there being exploitable bugs in restart(2) which
> > unprivileged users can play with. And for the usual distro-kernel
> > reasons, saying use 'CONFIG_CHECKPOINT=n' is not an option.
>
> This is correct, yes. If I would be a sysadmin who knows a bit about
> kernel internals, I'd never trust restart(2) to get it right.
Now I suppose what we could do is define a new CAP_SYS_RESTART
capability and require that. Then the admin to whom I'm trying
to cater could simply 'capset cap_sys_restart=pe /bin/restart'.
Then all users could use restart without being granted the
extra privilege implied by CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
-serge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 2:32 [PATCH 00/30] C/R OpenVZ/Virtuozzo style Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-10 2:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-10 5:07 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-13 9:14 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-13 11:16 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-13 18:07 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-14 4:26 ` Oren Laadan
2009-04-14 14:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-14 18:08 ` Oren Laadan
2009-04-14 18:34 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-14 19:31 ` Oren Laadan
2009-04-14 20:08 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-14 20:49 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-14 21:11 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-14 21:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-04-15 19:21 ` CAP_SYS_ADMIN on restart(2) (was: Re: [PATCH 00/30] C/R OpenVZ/Virtuozzo style) Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-15 20:22 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-04-15 20:23 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-15 20:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-04-15 21:05 ` CAP_SYS_ADMIN on restart(2) Oren Laadan
2009-04-15 21:16 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-04-16 15:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-16 16:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2009-04-10 8:28 ` [PATCH 00/30] C/R OpenVZ/Virtuozzo style Ingo Molnar
2009-04-10 11:45 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-10 15:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 7:39 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-13 18:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 19:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 12:29 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-14 13:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 16:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-04-14 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-14 17:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-14 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-14 5:46 ` Oren Laadan
2009-04-14 15:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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