Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:47:49 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Capability ingranularity |
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Hello developers,
I am currently writing a LSM security module. Because of how many functions work, I have to add CAP_SYS_ADMIN to the effective capabilities of the implemented "medium-privileged root" user. However, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is used in a _lot_ of places, so I need to add security_*() hooks for many functions that just return EPERM should current->euid be MediumPriv. If you just look at include/linux/capabilities.h and look at the long list of what CAP_SYS_ADMIN enables, this might sound like an overkill. Is there a better way to do this?
Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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