From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:54:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203155425.GA2270@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110203153252.GA24153@mail.hallyn.com>
On 2011-02-03 15:32 +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> At 2.6.39 or 2.6.40, let's add a sysctl which defaults to 0. When
> 0, refuse if cap_sys_admin, if 1, then allow.
This had better default to 1, since that's the "don't break working
systems" setting. Users (more likely, distributions) can set it to 0
when they have new enough userspace.
> This will allow users to acknowledge (permanently, if they must, using
> /etc/sysctl.conf) that they've seen the syslog message about
> cap_sys_admin being deprecated for syslog.
Why should the user need to acknowledge anything in order for their
system to not be broken? What are they supposed to do otherwise?
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 11:39 CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space Gergely Nagy
2011-02-03 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-03 15:32 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-03 15:53 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-03 16:51 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-03 17:07 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-04 0:49 ` david
2011-02-04 8:03 ` Marc Koschewski
2011-02-04 8:40 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-04 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-04 16:03 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-03 15:54 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2011-02-04 16:05 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-04 16:33 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-04 17:15 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-05 7:05 ` david
2011-02-06 1:18 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-09 21:23 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-09 21:28 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-09 21:34 ` david
2011-02-09 21:40 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-09 21:47 ` david
2011-02-09 22:04 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-09 22:27 ` david
2011-02-09 22:37 ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-10 14:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-09 19:50 ` Gergely Nagy
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