Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: turn on by default

["Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>]

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Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>

Cheers

Andrew

Serge Hallyn wrote:
| Now that file capabilities can be turned off at boot, go ahead
| and compile them into the kernel by default by making
| CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y the default.
|
| Note that the boot flag no_file_caps must be specified to turn
| file capabilities off, as by default they are on.  So the
| default behavior is in fact changed.
|
| Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
| ---
|  security/Kconfig |    7 +++++--
|  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
|
| diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
| index 5592939..6fbb233 100644
| --- a/security/Kconfig
| +++ b/security/Kconfig
| @@ -75,12 +75,15 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM
|
|  config SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
|  	bool "File POSIX Capabilities"
| -	default n
| +	default y
|  	help
|  	  This enables filesystem capabilities, allowing you to give
|  	  binaries a subset of root's powers without using setuid 0.
|
| -	  If in doubt, answer N.
| +	  You can still boot with the no_file_caps option to disable
| +	  file capabilities.
| +
| +	  If in doubt, answer Y.
|
|  config SECURITY_ROOTPLUG
|  	bool "Root Plug Support"
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