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SubjectRe: [RFC] cgroups: implement device whitelist lsm (v2)
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Why aren't the
> > existing cgroup security semantics sufficient?
>
> Because the point of this is to provide some restrictions to otherwise
> privileged users, and cgroups only provides dac-based permissions.
>
> But that doesn't mean that I'm not doing too much. I could just add a
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_CONT_OVERRIDE+CAP_SYS_ADMIN check, and not restrict
> which cgroups a task can move to. Does that sound good?

Sounds reasonable.

Paul


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