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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jim Lieb <jlieb@panasas.com>,
	tytso@mit.edu, viro@zeniv.linux.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bfields@redhat.com, jlayton@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] switch_creds:  Syscall to switch creds for file server ops
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 02:20:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017012050.GR13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppr4lmp3.fsf@xmission.com>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 06:18:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> That doesn't look bad but it does need capable(CAP_SETUID) &&
> capable(CAP_SETGID) or possibly something a little more refined.

D'oh

> I don't think we want file descriptor passing to all of a sudden become
> a grant of privilege, beyond what the passed fd can do.

Definitely.  And an extra ) to make it compile wouldn't hurt either...

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-16 22:01 [RFC PATCH 0/3] System call to switch user credentials Jim Lieb
2013-10-16 22:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] switch_creds: Syscall to switch creds for file server ops Jim Lieb
2013-10-16 22:42   ` Al Viro
2013-10-17  1:18     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-17  1:20       ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-10-17  3:35         ` Jim Lieb
2013-10-17  3:52         ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-24  1:14           ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-24  5:59             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-10-24 19:04               ` Jim Lieb
2013-10-24 19:28               ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-24 20:24                 ` Jim Lieb
2013-10-31 19:09                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-31 19:43                     ` Jim Lieb
2013-10-31 19:48                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-10-31 20:39                         ` Jim Lieb
2013-11-01 13:24                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-11-01 15:49                             ` Jim Lieb
2013-11-01 16:07                               ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-11-01 17:16                                 ` Jim Lieb
2013-10-16 22:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] switch_creds: Add x86 syscall number Jim Lieb
2013-10-16 22:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] switch_creds: Assign x86_64 syscall number for switch_creds Jim Lieb

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